How has the need to open Brodsworth Hall to tourists changed the hall and its grounds, and in what way have these changes affected our understanding of life in a Victorian country house?

... English Heritage decided to conserve rather than restore Brodsworth Hall How has the need to open Brodsworth Hall to tourists changed the hall and its grounds, and in what way have these changes affected our understanding of life in a Victorian country house? English Heritage made a lot of changes to Brodsworth Hall such as a new roof and a tea room in order to conserve and the hall and open the hall to tourists. Some of the changes made are for the better and some are for the worse. The dictionary describes conserve to mean 'make it last'. Throughout this essay I will be discussing the house and gardens and whether English Heritage in conserving Brodsworth hall has affected our understanding of life in a Victorian country house. The hardest part of Victorian to understand was the part the servants played. The hall was lived in until 1988and Sylvia Grant-Dalton who

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