'I thought I'd gone to a prison.' This was Hilda Newman's first impression when, at the age of 19, she left her parents' little terraced cottage in Lincolnshire and embarked on a new life as a lady's maid at Croome Court, the enormous stately home of Lord and Lady Coventry.
Newman, now in her 90s tells of her life as a maid to Lady Coventry at the stately home of Croome Court in the 1930s. She reveals what is was like living and working in an 18th century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. With appeal to all fans of "Downton Abbey".
