Part memoir and part historical account.This country house has been lived in by the same family for over nine hundred years. The South Staffordshire Water Company proposed to build a dam across the little river Blythe, to make a reservoir. It wasn't long before a letter from the South Staffordshire Water Company told us to remove all the remaining contents from the Hall and hand it over to them in three months time. We asked ourselves 'Why do we have to leave this wonderful old place?' So Caryl asked the trustees to buy the house and thirty acres of gardens, and our life's work began. Most people thought we were mad then, but not now