I Love Old Buildings
Our school is founded on the site of a manor house and estate that belonged to an aristocratic Welsh family until they had their property confiscated in the 16thC for being Catholics 馃槦
Lots of new buildings have been put up since, but the old manor house survives and I live in one wing of it with 16 other girls and a teacher 馃檪 Some of the other boarding houses are more modern with nicer bathrooms, but I would not swap our house for anything. It has beautiful polished oak floorboards - which are lovely to walk on in bare feet - beams, old glass windows and a great big staircase.
The last lady of the manor had 7 daughters (so the estate would not have remained in her family, even if it had not been taken away), so I like to think that she would approve of its current use and that when we slide down the banister we are continuing an old tradition 馃檪
I also sometimes like to imagine that I am Lady Tammie Bear 馃惢馃槈
Lots of new buildings have been put up since, but the old manor house survives and I live in one wing of it with 16 other girls and a teacher 馃檪 Some of the other boarding houses are more modern with nicer bathrooms, but I would not swap our house for anything. It has beautiful polished oak floorboards - which are lovely to walk on in bare feet - beams, old glass windows and a great big staircase.
The last lady of the manor had 7 daughters (so the estate would not have remained in her family, even if it had not been taken away), so I like to think that she would approve of its current use and that when we slide down the banister we are continuing an old tradition 馃檪
I also sometimes like to imagine that I am Lady Tammie Bear 馃惢馃槈