The Front of Halton House.My bedroom was the top right window.The middle top window has clearly now been converted to a room but then it was the window of the top landing hallway.There was a wall each side of the then old fashioned gate and an incredable brass door nob which it was my job every day to sparklingly clean.The house went back a long way with another wing a washhouse,apple house ect.There were stables, a chapel,two orchards,pool,duck garden with ducks,tennis court,coppice,rose garden,very large vegetable gardens which the gardener Mr Gardener worked on daily,two meadows which we scythed the poppied hay for the duck house.The apple orchard was swarmed with startlings every evening and we clapped and waved them off as they swarmed back into the vast sky.
