LHS committee member, Jackie Chaytor, delighted us with a presentation last year on the history of the Lucy family of Charlecote Park. In this presentation she will continue the story with details of the significant Victorian makeover and additions to the house. She will talk about the opulence of the estate in its heyday, referencing the masque ball thrown by Sir George and Lady Elizabeth Lucy. In common with other large agricultural estates Charlecote suffered from severe agricultural depressions in late Victorian times, from which it never recovered and in 1946 Sir Montgomery Fairfax-Lucy presented Charlecote to the National Trust for permanent safe keeping.
Jackie is a long-serving volunteer guide with the National Trust.