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Working at Knole

Stories from people who have worked for the Sackville-West family, as employees of Knole Estate or, after 1946, for the National Trust.

If you'd like to listen to any of these interviews in full, you're invited to search the British Library's online catalogue, using 'Knole' as one of your search keywords. You can then read each interview's timed content summary and reserve the recording for playback at the British Library in London.

  • Acquiring Gainsborough's portrait of the marquis de Champcenetz

    Behind the scenes of a thrilling 2016 auction
  • Alan Grubb

    Bricklayer and builder at Knole, 1963-87
  • Audrey Longley

    Audrey's mother and two aunts worked as Still Room maids at Knole in the 1920s
  • Barbara Taylor

    Learning Officer
  • Bill Manning worked on the Ballroom sconces

    Knole's carpenter in the 1960s and '70s
  • Charlie Beavin, Head Gardener at Knole from 1938

    Born on Knole Estate, started work from the age of 14
  • Christine Sitwell

    Adviser, National Trust, Painting Conservation
  • Christmases at Knole

    Memories of interviewees from the earliest decades of the 20th century
  • Cyril Haysom meets the Queen Mother in 1980

    Cyril was stonemason at Knole, 1963-84
  • David and Margaret Richie

    Knole Estate gardener and housemaid, 1930s
  • David Arrowsmith

    Knole Estate carpenter 1965-1979
  • David Cattell

    Project Architect, Inspired by Knole Project, 2013-2019
  • Douglas Jeffery

    Nephew of Knole's Housekeeper, Bertha Jeffery, in the 1920s
  • Emma Slocombe

    Inspired by Knole Project Curator, 2007-2017
  • Emma Slocombe on curatorial research and re-presenting Knole

    Inspired by Knole, Project Curator 2007-2017
  • Emmy Arlett

    Knole Estate Fencer's daughter, grew up in estate cottage in the 1910s and 20s
  • Frances Parton

    Project Curator, Knole, 2017-2019
  • Gerry Alabone and Mark Searle, frames conservators in 2016

    Frames conservators, Inspired by Knole project (2013-2019)
  • Graeme Gardiner's work on Knole's 17th century pedigree rolls

    Conservator of the Sackville pedigree rolls and ennoblement documents
  • Hannah Kay

    General Manager, Knole, from 2015
  • Helen Fawbert

    House and Collections Manager, Knole, 2006-2018
  • Ian Tyers

    Dendrochronologist
  • Introducing this website

    updated March 2026
  • Jack Pattenden

    Memories of parents - liveried Wicket Keepers [Front Hall Porters] at Knole
  • Staff

    Staff (54)

    Not your usual 9 to 5
  • Volunteers

    Volunteers (14)

    Stories from volunteers at Knole
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  • 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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