The RESTORATION of our 500-Year-Old Masterpiece: Step-by-Step REVEAL
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2023
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As a retired History teacher, I have done a number of guided tours over the years. When it first happened on a tour I was quite embarrassed when I noticed several members of the public had joined the group of students. I was used to standing in front of young people, but somehow I found it quite nerve-wracking in front of adults. It took me a while to get used to it, but once I had, I loved "performing". Having been also involved in training teachers I can tell that Jess will do a really good job.
JESS, I have a few little secrets I learned years ago when I had to give speeches in front of hundreds of people. 1. NO ONE ELSE KNOWS WHAT YOUR SPEECH IS SUPPOSE TO SAY! If you forget something--NO ONE KNOWS IT BUT YOU--SO JUST KEEP GOING! 2.- If you ever start to get nervous-look just over the tops of peoples heads. They never know you aren’t looking directly at them. 3. If you do not know something--SAY YOU DON’T KNOW, BUT WILL FIND OUT and follow through. BEST OF LUCK!
I REALLY LOVE THE BEAVERS and enjoy hearing about them.
Well done Jess.
@My Cancer Journey what is your RUclips name, put the connection up here. My mum in law had cancer for many years, she had no chemo.
Tips for tour guides: Only speak when facing your audience (not when you are facing the object of discussion), only speak once the entire group has joined you, and repeat all questions before answering them. 😊
I'd love a fairy garden around the kids area. I like the idea of bringing the forest area to the kids as parents can explore [nature walks, bird watching, nature tour]. As an American, I always see the whole fairy garden and fairy mounds as a British thing. TEA parties, birthdays, etc.
Glad to see Nestor working at the beaver enclosure......it is good to see his genuine interest in the project!!!! WELL DONE!!!!
You need a stable full of stick horses for the kids! Also, you could have slates/chalk boards on frames at the kids' village and chalk could be handed out when they check in. Also, don't forget the power of a good scavenger hunt!
What a great episode. Lovely to see new faces. More of Ben and Nestor looking at other aspects of rewilding. Thank you
How lovely to see your efforts progress to a new stage. The tour will be wonderful and the lost village of Mapperton is sure to be a delight!
1. What happened to Stephen and Claire? Are they still at Mapperton?
2. Why do Ben and Chris seem so cute? 😍
3. It's nice that Nestor is learning about the management of the estate. Are Luke & Julie's other children involved sometimes too, when they have breaks from school?
4. Love the apparent dedication of the staff (Mic, Jess, etc.).
Great questions!
We now have a full-time filmmaker and editor as we have 2 growing channels. His name is Chris (part of Ben and Chris's adventures!) and he's brilliant. You'll see him in lots of videos here.
What historical beauty I dream of going to to tour in the future
You really make great job, important not just for us, but for future generation. I am a little shy with my English to leave comments, but if it will help you by anyway, I will. I am unemployeed, but do everything, like always watch your video couple of times, to make more views, subscribed both your channels, always put my like. I do like stories about your repairs as in Italy, as in Dorset. My full sympathy with your problems, but how happy make me your progress. And you inspire me with my small repairs. With big finuncial difference we are in the same boat: have to make progress in strong money limits. And I think, "If they can move ahead, I can too", and search for the way to improve. I do wish you good luck, good health, good mood and endless enthusiasm to keep this weight of responsibility on your shoulders. Peace for you, your family and your country!
You should try to get Katherine and William to come dedicate the play area. Katherine is all about outside play for children.
Just listened to weds live and great to know that Preston Sturgess is connected to the family. Loved seeing his films as afternoon movies here in Los Angeles during the 60s-70s before the chat shows became de regur programing to be replaced with earlier and earlier broadcast starts of the news.
So many new happenings going on!! The childrens play area they designed is my interest, it is exciting to see and look forward to see its completion!
What about some focused tours, the Women of Mapperton, foods associated with the Produce and the family - chocolate ice cream, energy bars, and of course sandwiches just for two. That way the same people could come several times foe different tours
There is a artist that has built gorgeous playareas in Denmark , he builds gigantic sculptures in the forest of twigs and wood. In Oslo bothanical gardens they have a play area with sculptures made of braded willow, worth exploring if You want to expand the play area at one point! Great job!
I see Nestor taking a real interest in the estate, but I know that his big brother will be the next Viscount. I hope they will make a good team
You have so many really fine members on your Mapperton team! Wish I could take one of the tours!
It is amazing how those paintings just absorb all kinds of things, smoke, dirt, moisture, etc.
Those of us who don't have original paintings or see galleries very often have no idea when they are existing in old homes what they go thru.
Or how people "restore" them (without experience) or "improve" (change) them.
And then actual talented restorers come and reveal their hidden stories.
When a person considers most paintings can be created with oil paints, not surprising. Oil loves to absorb.
I have missed updates on the beavers. Tell them I said Hi. 🙂Never actually met them, but say Hi anyway.
Curious about the pallet cube. Oh, I see, its like a nature observer's blind. They will smell you, you know.
Put something in there to get them used to you. Like with deer. And maybe a nice snack they can't resist right by it. What's a snack for beavers?
If you just appear in there one day without that, they will pick it up and avoid.
We have had the strangest weather in IOWA this week.
Temps up to 67 degrees Fahrenheit, we had a very wild, windy rainstorm yesterday with thunder
and then today 36 degrees Fahrenheit and a thin layer of snow overnight.
And now, snow is gone again. The sun came out for a bit.
It is 42 degrees Fahrenheit here now and cloudy again.
Just wait, it will change again. Just pay attention to the bone joints, they will tell you when it is coming. Yep
Excited about the children's structures and area. Makes you think of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Are you going to have a Wendy House?
Love to see all the progress and plans.
Lovely to see all this property
From Country House Rescue to now is amazing.
Great to see the play area coming together and the new guided tour getting underway!
Your new manager is so hardworking and creative.
Please put your opening photos of you and Luke, John and Caroline, your cats , house and kids❤! I love the music and how you talk about your home, etc. Beautiful ❤️!
Please make more recipes! It's wonderful when you cook at home! It's great seeing Nester! Always a pleasure! Best wishes Jess on your new role in tours! You'll do splendidly ❤🎉!!!!! I hope John and Caroline are doing well! Nester, the beavers will love their new home!!!! Wonderful job!
Really enjoyed all of this - the picture restoration - the guided tours - the beavers- the play area !!! All wonderful!
Many thanks!
Sent you an email about author from Metropolitan Museum who wrote book on Gilded Age French fashion discussing the importance of Gilded Age letters in her research. Hope you get it. 😊
Love your channel! Jo Good is looking for people to interview on her new chat show on RUclips and I recommended she get you both. I think your story of how COVID shut down Mapperton and how RUclips made such a difference is a great story to share. Also I think it would help get the word out to potential visitors to get to your 20,000 goal. Wish Canada wasn’t across the ocean or we would be there! One day! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Reach out to Jo Good - Middle Age Minx
Seeing the painting being restored was really interesting
Beaver blind. Nice.
To identify the school structure it might be fun to hang a bell.. love that you are encouraging creative play
Remember Jess, "mistresses' come to a bad end in the Sandwich family.
Lord Montagu needed a wash and brush up! Only the best for Mapperton. Your house is packed with stories - one day youll be stories too, especially Julie. Hooray,I was right! In the ad break I did some research ie I googled,and that Basil Montagu IS the one mentioned in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal. For a few years,not sure how many he lived in their household as a little boy and Dorothy sometimes mentions that he's playing in the garden. I think this was probably the 18th century discreet way of smoothing over the odd anomaly that wasn't supposed to occur.
As a docent in a local art museum I choose 4-5 pieces to focus on for an hour tour. Do the same with the portraits.
I love seeing the family involvement and Nestor (sp?) is a lovely young man!
Loving this episode!!! Luke, you crack me up! Jess, congratulations, I can’t wait to come for a tour!
Poor Jess. Given the vagaries of the Great British weather Isn't it about time for a Mapperton branded rain jacket?
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I’m comparing with a lot of guided tours of the many historic homes in Fairfax County,Virginia to include General Washington’s Mt. Vernon. Guides are outfitted and issued dark blazers and wear name tags to set them apart from the general public. Just a thought to jazz up the initial impressions and importance of your beautiful historic home.
Have toured the house a few years ago and was hosted by Luke's father, the Earl. It's a very personal tour in a family home, so the blazers and name tags wouldn't really suit on this occasion. The whole place has such a lovely atmosphere, including the gardens.
While the history of the owners of the house is interesting, let's not leave aside to intricate architectural details present through the eras.
It's really those details which transform a house tour into an enriching experience.
The play areas need a ship play structure for the 1st earl that went to get King Charles II
Next time I'm in London I am going to take a weekend to visit Mapperton.
I don't think it will be this year but maybe next.
I think it will be money well spent and I'm certain my wife will love it.
I am doing the same, I really want to see the gardens
Oh the dead mouse smell!! Happens to my house almost every year!! Incense! Sometimes we are lucky and can find the smelly corpse. But usually it is hidden in the floors or walls.
Great to see that you have a good start to the season
Who is the painting by ? It is stunning and looks like a Flemish Artist .:) I love this channel keep it up. Beautiful history .
Having been a tour guide and interpretative guide (dressed in period clothes) for many years, I would suggest you read your group and tailor your tour accordingly. When you speak to what interests them that's when they engage and find it interesting. Oh, and never sound rehearsed or robotic. Nestor, beavers are very nearsighted so you could probably get to within a few feet of them as they learn your scent to take your photos.
How about keeping carpets and floors protected from visitors shoes and dirt?
This was a very enjoyable video - I look forward to seeing the kids in the Mapperton Forest Village. LOL at the Beaver Blind.. watch the beavers will move in to it.
☺️So many fun things happening!
So many exciting projects. Wish I was able to come visit.
Lovely! Enjoy your weekend! Hugs! Looking forward to watching your video!
Another great video
Watch Baumgartner Restoration for conservation par excellence.
Love the children's new wooden skeleton village ❤
Thanks for another great episode!
Our pleasure!
I love seeing Nestor.
We have beavers at our lake house so we are used to seeing eaten trees; but they have been much smaller trees than the larger one that has munching on yours!
The best tour I have ever been on was in India. The guide bought a total ruin to life explaining who lived in the rooms, what they were used for, what life was like st that time. Some juicy stories of what happened in the spaces. I was gripped
Now this is the color and content I expect of the early ears of the house. That red is a spot on for decoration. What did it look like before the cleaning?
Julie, cover his hands!!❤❤
Not to prolong a situation but does anyone here doubt that Julie & Co. have sought out what is the best way to accomplish success in a situation that is just even at times only a band aid just waiting for a return of disaster? The Countess seems quite versed in matters concerning pictures especially when it comes to the various levels of conservation and restoration of paintings following their warehouse fire experience. When it comes to conservation or restoration the aim is always not to make a mess that damage of which that cannot be reversed. The only "proper" application is that which is appropriate to the situation. The tech needs to evaluate each situation and not every painting or artwork needs the same level of treatment. How do I know this? It was drilled into me during my education and training to be an archivist with a concentration in photographic conservation and restoration. The tech was applying the basic technique to address the situation he found when he evaluated the painting. It is never a matter of how extensive a procedure is but what is appropriate. In this particular instance the tech addressed a basic condition that was very superficial but it took care of the immediate need of the picture. "Baum" is a wonderful series of how pictures are evaluated and processed but it has to be remembered that the "entertainment" value of a episode is dependent on some drama and it seems that those pictures that get an episode are very intensive projects. Julie's tech told us that he was not surprised that the picture had already had restoration work done with its backing and he was not surprised a picture of that age had already had such a procedure done. Both Julie and Luke are very concerned with getting feedback from the Earl and Countess about things they do.
Are you concerned that the beavers will fell too many trees? Love your videos. If I was able, I would definitely stay at Mapperton. Beautiful place.
i agree the picture looks better - except as lukes mom says for his hands - someone didnt paint hands very well - ha! and yes nestor has grown like a weed!! sadly its no wonder historic homes were sold how can anyone afford to pay for the upkeep - thank goodness for you tube!!
and for people like julie - she is amazing!
Dorset's best guided tour? Athelhampton and Fode Abbey will be seething!
the earl of jazz hands
Hahahaha! 😂
Brilliant. Why not lacquer or glass cover the children's design and display at the children's playground to show how you involved them.
Julie, I don't know how you do the 2 Channels?
Why are the paintings not behind glass frames???
What is the wide leaf plant in front of the dam building being done on the creek? Is it a wild or native?
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Question: What is the vine (purple flowers) growing on the main Mapperton house, between ground floor and top floor.. It's not blooming now but I have seen it in the past videos. Is it clematis?? Love your videos ❤
I believe it is wisteria
Hi Julie from Colorado! I was wondering today, as I was laying out my kids homeschool plans, if your husband's family has any relationship to the montague family mentioned in Romeo and Juliet? Any connections in Luke's family history with Shakespeare? Love your historic shows!
Yes, def. Shakespeare used the name Montagu as it is a noble family name. xx Julie
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It may seem strange, but I think a guided tour should be conducted by someone in "uniform". A shirt or blouse, trousers or skirt, with a discreet logo embroidered on a pocket or similar.
Agreed. And, if more than one, named accordingly. So, “slave 1”, “slave 2”, etc.
It’s too bad you’ve crowded that stunningly gorgeous mirror over the commode in the hallway at the base of the stairs with the circular pieces around it. The added artwork suffocates that beautiful mirror and complicates the small space the commode occupies. Beautiful pieces of art, mirrors and furnishings need to have space around them to breathe!! Crowding such magnificent pieces as the mirror are taking the attention away from the unique beauty of such a piece. 😢 showcase it by simplifying the way it’s displayed so your attention focuses on the piece alone. Please?? 😮😢❤
Julie perhaps u all can invent a brand of cheese and a brand of tea and coffee that can ship to the far reaches of the globe profits devided between a charity and mapperton
I’m sure Jess will be a wonderful tour guide but I think she should dress more professionally rather than overalls. Perhaps a skirt and fitted blazer fits the job better.
Why has the painting not been removed from its frame? There is most likely moisture damage under the edge of the frame on the painting. At the very least the frame should have been removed so the painting could be examined properly.
Great point and question.
Repairing a painting of antiquity on the wall where it hangs seemed absurd to me. Seemed more like a cameo appearance to introduce the restorer.
I’m sad his hands didn’t end up looking better! Lol
Jess has Uma Thurman eyes
I think tours would be great given by someone in period dress???
Why can we not just start and finish a video about one subject.... I thought this was a restoration video for an old painting an the process. It turned into a long advertisement for completely different projects! You could do advertisements and promotion on shorts.
They have a lot of overlapping projects going on, so covering only one at a time in their videos isn't at all practical, and would require too many of them. I'm just fine with their chosen format, love seeing and hearing about everything they want to cover in each one.
The whole point of the films is to inspire and incite us to drive to Dorset,or buy a train ticket get on a bus and visit Mapperton and pay an entrance fee,but meals, msybe stay in the csmping yurt (i would so love to),because like all historic houses the world over it needs an income to fund it,to maintain it,heat it and preserve it.
Luke and Julie's films are full of love,for their living family,their family heritage,the house and land,and us people but it's not a vanity project,it has a purpose. Come on people dont be like thise meanie skinflints who object to paying an entry free to an ancient Cathedral that has huge bills to pay and as they are non-believers they are fibbing when they claim they only want to enter to pray.
@@donnabaardsen5372 I enjoy the variety of topics.
@@janebaker966 Yes, me too. That's the whole point of their videos.
I love the variety on the channel ❤
That guest on the tour wearing a backpack made me cringe. Please make them carry in their hand or on one shoulder, as museums require.
We don't dictate to Luke and Julie. And they don't "make" people do anything. It's up to them, and if it bothered them, they'll decide, not commenters. It's a shame that something so insignificant makes you "cringe." Way too sensitive.
@@donnabaardsen5372 things can be knocked over by backpacks. I believe that was the commentors concern.
@@donnabaardsen5372 what? He’s right. I used to work in a beautiful place full of priceless treasures and that was my main job: to ensure people did not wear backpacks on their, uhm, back. I don’t think wearing it on their shoulders is safe either: we used to make them wear it in front. That way they can see what they could knock if they get too close, and hopefully avoid it.
Thank RUclips for letting the aristocracy be e-beggars. Boo hoo, my castle needs expensive repairs. Get a g-d job or sell it.
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