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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus sir Yauncey har Piir Crewe s bedroom until pm Marrugo. England s Home that time forgot baking Cruces . Bureau hidden in its own 1,000-acre Park to Miles South o Derby England is one of the oddest places in Britain a House where time stood still. The House is called Calke Abbey and for 280 years it was the Home of the Harpur Crewe family. The last upheaval at Calke Abbey until the one that s going on now happened in 1841 when its grand Saloon was remodeler. From then on Little changed nothing was thrown away. Four years ago this rip Van Winkle among houses was jolted awake by the death of Charles Harpur Crew who had lived there taking very Little notice of the outside world As had generations of 6 stripes Magazine october 37,1935 his amiably eccentric ancestors since he inherited the time i Pule estate after world War ii. Over the years electricity not installed until 1 f 4the Telephone and the motor car had passed  Aby by. That was just Fine with the inhabitant of the huge quadrangular mansion whose boundaries had for the last four generations of owners  the ends of the known world. Sir Henry Harpur Crewe started the family tradition m the mid-19lh Century of living in seclusion and collecting things stuffed Birds shells rocks. You name it they collected it. The tradition is said to have reached its apogee in sir Yauncey Harpur Crewe who inherited Calke in 1836 and ruled there until his death in 1924. He  reported in be benevolent landlord but was said to bae difficulty Oping with family life. So " a so that in supposedly Tommu Niju a with Hildren to oui a messages do keyed by Foo men. Ii Sho ids Wen. Sir Yauncey s great passion alive i. Best of All stuffed. He also liked to Lake pot s it his longhorn rattle passing in the Park and Liang their Mournful Heads on Bis Walls. Sir Yauncey Clun i much care for motor  
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