{"id":155,"date":"2011-09-12T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=155"},"modified":"2023-08-31T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:12:21","slug":"toddington-manor-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Toddington Manor, Beds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Private &#8211; non current.<\/em><br \/>\nThe manor has a long history, and parts date from the Tudor period. The building used to be much bigger (see Wikipedia).<br \/>\nThe gardens were open to the public on limited dates, and when I went a few years ago a tractor collection and other agricultural things were also on display. The gardens (with lake) are quite worth seeing. The house is <strong>not<\/strong> open to the public.<br \/>\nToddington Manor is of special interest to me as until recently it was owned by Sir Neville Bowman-Shaw, who was the MD of Boss Trucks Ltd, where I used to work, and which went bust in 1994. I lost my job, while Sir Neville continued to lord it over Toddington Manor.<br \/>\nThe estate was sold, asking price \u00a36.5M. The tractor collection was apparently sold at auction.<br \/>\nThe estate agent\u2019s brochure gave a surprising amount of detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private &#8211; non current. The manor has a long history, and parts date from the Tudor period. The building used to be much bigger (see Wikipedia). The gardens were open to the public on limited dates, and when I went a few years ago a tractor collection and other agricultural things were also on display. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toddington Manor, Beds.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}