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Volunteers

Stories from or about Knole's volunteers

  • Barbara Fermor

    Volunteer, started Knole's Tudor character costume collection
  • Celebrating Knole volunteers in June 2022 (Volunteers' week)

    A selection of National Trust volunteer contributions since the 1950s
  • Clare Fallows

    More than four decades as volunteer Room Steward
  • Cynthia Hurrell

    Volunteer, King's Bed conservation project, 1970s
  • David Arrowsmith

    Knole Estate carpenter 1965-1979
  • Dorothy Raleigh

    The early days of room-stewarding
  • Eve Tucker, Knole volunteer since 1987

    Sevenoaks resident and wartime reporter for the Sevenoaks Chronicle
  • Jenny Wright and Ethelwyn Osborne

    Volunteer needlewomen on The King's Bed project, 1974-1987
  • John Martin

    Caring for Knole's clocks for more than 20 years
  • Knole volunteers who found the Message-in-a-Bottle

    Brenda Jarvis and Jim Parker relive their exciting discovery
  • Marcia Barton

    Knole volunteer (1987-2019)
  • Meet the team

    National Trust volunteers at Knole, in Sevenoaks, Kent, interview, record and transcribe conversations with people who have been connected to Knole Estate staff since the late 19th century as well as those who have worked at Knole (NT) or visited the parkland.
  • The History of Knole tapestry

    Interviews with the Textile Group Sevenoaks
  • The King's Bed project

    The King's Bed project (5)

    Knole's 13-year conservation project
Working at Knole
  • Acquiring Gainsborough's portrait of the marquis de Champcenetz
  • Alan Grubb
  • Audrey Longley
  • Barbara Taylor
  • Bill Manning worked on the Ballroom sconces
  • Charlie Beavin, Head Gardener at Knole from 1938
  • Christine Sitwell
  • Christmases at Knole
  • Cyril Haysom meets the Queen Mother in 1980
  • David and Margaret Richie
  • David Arrowsmith
  • David Cattell
  • Douglas Jeffery
  • Emma Slocombe
  • Emma Slocombe on curatorial research and re-presenting Knole
  • Emmy Arlett
  • Frances Parton
  • Gerry Alabone and Mark Searle, frames conservators in 2016
  • Graeme Gardiner's work on Knole's 17th century pedigree rolls
  • Hannah Kay
  • Helen Fawbert
  • Ian Tyers
  • Introducing this website
  • Jack Pattenden
  • James Finlay
  • James P Wright
  • Jan Cutajar
  • Jonathan Sargant
  • Judy Raschen
  • Kay Stratford recalls her mother’s service in about 1900
  • Knole volunteers who found the Message-in-a-Bottle
  • Leslie Farrow
  • Lucy and Agnes Hodder
  • Margaret Simmons née Beavin
  • Martha Infray
  • Martin Drury remembers Vita Sackville-West's rocking horse
  • Matthew Champion
  • Maurice Howard, OBE, supervised two key PhD theses on Knole
  • Meet the team
  • Melanie Caldwell on conserving Reynolds's paintings
  • Michael Doggett
  • Mr and Mrs Collins
  • Mr and Mrs Jack Tye
  • Nathalie Cohen
  • Nathalie Cohen
  • Richard Hill
  • Robin Mills
  • Sarah Maisey conserving a Reynolds portrait
  • Sidney Doggett's grandchildren
  • Siobhan Barratt
  • Stan Hollands
  • The Beatles at Knole in 1967
  • Tim Martin
  • Tobit Curteis, conservator, historic wall paintings
  • Vic Paler
  • Victoria Phillips
  • William Hughes, aged 17, Second Footman's duties included polishing the Knole silver
  • Yannick Chastang
  • Zenzie Tinker
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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 (12 interviews)
  • 1960s (20 interviews)
  • 1970s (14 interviews)
  • 1980s (14 interviews)
  • 1990s (7 interviews)
  • 2000s (6 interviews)
  • 2010s (35 interviews)
  • 2020s (7 interviews)
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