Saving Thoresby Hall
Janet Roberts

Find out:

• How did Warners solve the problem of lighting in the Great Hall?
  
  
• How the feature fireplaces were restored in the Blue Room?
  
  
• Why did Warners have to spend an unexpected £80,000 because of the bats?

When Warners bought Thoresby Hall a previous owner had removed part of the roof, and then gone into liquidation. Once open to the elements, rain had ruined the ornate plaster ceiling, fungi the size of footballs grew along the cornices, and only fragments of once-beautiful silk wallpaper hung on the walls. Vandals had also moved in smashing and stealing.

In fact it was such an empty, echoing shell that it was chosen as the perfect setting for the creepy "Satis House" in the BBC production of "Great Expectations". Yet within 12 months, within the tight confines of a Grade 1 listed building, and with a budget of well over £20 million, Warners would restore it to its former Victorian glory.

This is the story of that 12 months.

24 pages; over 40 full-colour photographs; 205mm x 205mm (8" x 8")
£3.50 + £1.00 postage & packing (less postage on large orders)