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Chateau Impney - The Story of a Victorian Country House |
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Impney Hall was built between 1869 and 1875 for John Corbett the ‘Worcestershire Salt King’ and his wife Anna and their family. John Corbett rose from the son of a Delph canal boat carrier to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs of his age. This book tells the story of this extremely wealthy industrialist and great philanthropist and of his splendid Victorian Mansion ‘Impney Hall.’
Each of the chapters tells a different part of the story of this Victorian country house, through the second part of Queen Victoria’s reign and into the 20th and 21st Centuries.
This is the story of a splendid Victorian Country mansion and of the incredible periods of English history its life has spanned.
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Here is a brief outline of the first three chapters of the book:
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‘The story of Impney Mansion is virtually the story of Droitwich itself, from the Victorian Era onwards; its history as strange and fascinating as one of the classic novels of that period, the characters strutting its stage as wild and turbulent as any that peopled them. |
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Impney Mansion - Chapter II |
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The story of John and Anna’s ‘fantastic’ French Chateau built in the Worcestershire countryside. A house for which it was stated: ‘...so well planned and built it will still be there in a 1000 years time’ This may be true and only time will tell, but a magnificent Victorian mansion planned and constructed down to the smallest detail. A fine house to reflect the status and success of John, his wife Anna and his family, filled with finest furniture, china, books and paintings to equal any of his contemporaries. |
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