{"id":659,"date":"2019-07-15T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:36:28","slug":"may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s extraordinary what pops out of the woodwork\u2026 or in this case, the plasterwork.\u00a0 A radiator leak in Park Gate House (the last house on the right before Nup End), meant a ceiling had to be re-plastered.\u00a0 During the work, this photo of a woman fell from under the floorboards of the room above.\u00a0 All that is written on it is \u201cPaton &amp; Humphrey, Photographers, Kilmarnock and Campbellton\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cambellton\u2019 \u2013 here\u2019s a mystery that\u2019s right up the street of Knebworth House Archivist Jill Campbell (of the Scottish Campbells)!\u00a0 Researching the photographers, she discovered that they flourished at 123 King Street, Kilmarnock, between 1864 and 1867.\u00a0 So was there a Scottish connection to the tenant at Park Gate House soon after this date?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there was.\u00a0 A Matthew Gray and his wife were living there in the 1881 census, both born in Scotland.\u00a0 Mr Gray was the Land Agent for my great-great-grandfather Robert Lytton (1831-1891).\u00a0 He was dismissed from his post in 1891, although allowed to retain the tenancy of Broadwater Farm.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know the circumstances of the falling out, but mention is made in one of Robert\u2019s letters that \u201cthe course he thought fit to take was not satisfactory to me\u201d.\u00a0 We know he had made himself unpopular with the hunting community, as the leader of a group of farmers who barred the local Hunt from crossing their farmland.\u00a0 But more likely to have been an issue with the Lytton family was a \u201csmall dispute on the ice (presumably on the lake in Knebworth Park) between the skaters and curlers\u201d in which Mr Gray supported the curlers.\u00a0 The Lyttons have always been great skaters.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a mystery that relates to Knebworth\u2019s past, do contact Jill in the Knebworth House Archives to see if she can shed light on it \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:jcampbell@knebworthhouse.com\">jcampbell@knebworthhouse.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-660 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PGH-Ceiling-Photo-bw-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PGH-Ceiling-Photo-bw-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PGH-Ceiling-Photo-bw.jpg 456w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 199px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 199\/300;\" \/>@HenryCobboldKH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s extraordinary what pops out of the woodwork\u2026 or in this case, the plasterwork.\u00a0 A radiator leak in Park Gate House (the last house on the right before Nup End), meant a ceiling had to be re-plastered.\u00a0 During the work, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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