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Visiting Knole

A permission slip from Lord Sackville allowing Mrs. Daniel to walk her dog in the park without a lead

A permission slip from Lord Sackville allowing Mrs. Daniel to walk her dog in the park without a lead

Stories from people who have visited Knole over the years.

  • Arnold Rogers

    Schoolboy memories from 1944

  • Eileen Bennett

    Sevenoaks resident, with memories from the 1930s

  • Gwen Froggatt

    Gwen visited Muriel Pinner, housekeeper at Knole in 1945

  • Introducing this website

    updated March 2026

  • Jacquie Elphick and Linda Grimwood, childhood memories of visiting Knole

    Visiting their aunt and uncle, Knole Lodge keepers in the 1950s and '60s

  • John Scott

    Sevenoaks resident, memories of Knole Park 1945-63

  • Kate Arding, childhood memories of Knole where her mother worked

    Summer holidays at Knole, from the age of 8 to 12

  • Mary Bates

    Mary assisted Sir Malcolm Sargent when he lived in the Gatehouse Tower at Knole post-1945

  • Maurice Howard remembers visiting NT houses from the 1950s

    Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Sussex, and eminent architectural historian, remembers 60 years of visiting Knole

  • Maurice Howard, OBE, supervised two key PhD theses on Knole

    Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sussex; architectural historian

  • Molly Dinham

    Molly's father-in-law was Lord Sackville's groom and coachman, pre-1914

  • Roy Calthorpe remembers cycling to Knole in 1957

    Headed a school trip by bicycle from London to visit Knole in 1957
Interviews by decade
  • 1880s (2 interviews)
  • 1890s (3 interviews)
  • 1900s (4 interviews)
  • 1910s (7 interviews)
  • 1920s (11 interviews)
  • 1930s (13 interviews)
  • 1940s (18 interviews)
  • 1950s (11 interviews)
  • 1960s (19 interviews)
  • 1970s (14 interviews)
  • 1980s (14 interviews)
  • 1990s (7 interviews)
  • 2000s (6 interviews)
  • 2010s (35 interviews)
  • 2020s (7 interviews)
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