Our Visit to Sandford Orcas
18 10 2007
We went on a visit to Sandford Orcas Tudor Mansion. This house belongs to a man named Sir Mervyn Medlycott.
This house was a big houseand it was really interesting. We had a really good time at the beautiful Tudor House. We saw some big thick metal plates that the people who
lived there used to eat with the metal they are made of is called pewter. So do you want to go yet?
It was a long way to go but maybe not as far as it is from your house. It had an enormous garden.
One day Sir Mervyn said that he found some children’s leather shoes from the Tudor times behind the wall in the house. He thinks that they might have been put there to bring good luck. This house was the biggest house we have ever seen, well we are only 7.
We saw a four poster bed. Did you know that the curtains were to make the bed like a little room? People used to walk through your bedroom, so the curtains were to stop people seeing you when you were asleep. They also helped keep you warm when you were in bed.
The toilet in the old house was a hole in the floor, it must have been very smelly.
On the wall in the church they had a statue that told the story about the people who built the house. The picture was important because lots of people in Tudor times could not read. They could use the picture to tell stories.
There is a fantastic stained glass picture of an elephant. Well it doesn’t look like an elephant it was really funny. Mr Mines told us it was because the person who made the picture, had never seen one, and he had to make it up from the things people had told him. Do you want to visit now?
BYE BYE
See you again some time
C and K
