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Discover the dazzling magic of Christmas at Gibside in Tyne and Wear
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25 Apr 2021
HUSSEY BY NAME: Museum founder John Bowes’ father fell deeply in love with the married Sarah Hussey
In the latest of her regular columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look behind the scenes at The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer
REGARDLESS of whether you believe in things that go bump in the night, the stories of a family’s long dead ancestors can make for entertaining reading.
If nothing else, they breathe life into the dusty pages of history.
Like the story from 300 years before museum founder John Bowes was born, when Janet Douglas, wife of John Lyon, the 6th Lord Glamis, was burnt at the stake after being accused of witchcraft by King James V of Scotland. Although clear that the accusations were false, the king had Janet, along with her family and servants, tortured until she “confessed”.
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• 10 Apr 2021
GUIDING LIGHT: Millie Stoney is one of a dozen volunteer guides hosting outdoor tours of The Bowes Museum ahead of its planned reopening to visitors in May
THE doors may currently be closed, but inquisitive visitors to The Bowes Museum can find out more about the landmark thanks to a group of volunteer guides.
Daily outdoor tours are being staged for those who would like to know more about the building, its founders and the grounds.
Among those happy to show people round is Millie Stoney, who has been visiting the museum since she was a child and whose husband, by coincidence, is a distant relative of Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes who married Mary Eleanor Bowes – museum founder John Bowes’ grandmother.