I used to drive past Seaton Delaval Hall in the car every day on my journey to work. I live in Tynemouth and I used to work in Cramlington  and my journey took me past the front of Seaton Delaval Hall.

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But before I actually came here the number of thoughts I had about what actually was inside because I didn’t know the history of Seaton Delaval Hall.

So it was, when I came here it was a discovery. From the front, the outside it was just amazing, I just had it in my mind thinking: ‘What is in there? What is in there?’

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That is how I came to be here, as I say, a combination of curiousity and thinking of something I would enjoy doing. And I think that first experience of when you first come into Seaton Delaval Hall is really something.

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Particularly the Main Hall, and just looking at it because it wasn’t what I was anticipating. I’d anticipated something like you see stately homes on television, something furnished, highly decorated, and it was, obviously, not that.

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