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Friday 6 December 2013

A mysterious heart on the bedroom floor!

Last week I was talking to some of the conservators at Penrhyn when they told me about something strange they had discovered that morning in the Slate Bedroom. They had rolled up the carpet the previous day ready for the windows to be taken out and painted. The furniture was covered up and everything ready for the painters to start working there. They had been on their hands and knees rolling up the carpet and had not noticed anything unusual about the floor. They went into the room that morning to check that everything was ready for the painters to start on the windows when they suddenly noticed that there was a heart on the floor!


The floorboards in the Slate Bedroom

It had not been there the previous day when they were rolling up the carpet. They were completely mystified and told me to go and look at it. I went up later with my camera to take a photograph of it. They wondered if it could be a message from someone who had lived there? I did not know what to make of it. Many strange things have been seen in that room over the years. What do you think?


The tale of the trembling Christmas tree!

A few days ago one of our learning assistants was in the scullery next to the Victorian kitchen. She was in charge of baking some gingerbread biscuits which I had been making with a group of school children. The children had gone to see Lady Penrhyn in the Breakfast Room with the other kitchen programme assistants. She was in the scullery when she heard someone moving around in the kitchen "being busy" and went in to see who was there. She really thought that someone was in the room but the kitchen was completely empty. She walked over to the cooker when the Christmas tree started moving as though someone was shaking it! A cracker fell off one of the branches at the back of the tree and it made her jump. She said that she did not brush past the tree when she went to check on the cooker. She walked around the table and did not go past it at all, so she did not knock it and make it move. She wanted to go out of the room but she had to stay and watch the cooker until the biscuits were done.

Very strange!

The Christmas tree in the Victorian Kitchen