The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

Page 9

superior woman”. She died when she about 60 years of age. I shall digress somewhat from the personal to the house, in a few paragraphs. Old Lambley Lodge originally was a foresters home, Leighfield Forest being one of the famous hunting grounds of the aristocracy of ages since. abounding in woods, spinneys, and first rate covers for game, and it is still a favourite field for the Melton hunt. The house was enlarged in my grandfather and father’s time, and patched up from time to time. It has no architectural beauty, a long 5 roomed building, with little external or internal comfort. The 7 upper as well as lower rooms having no passages, the yards, gardens, farm buildings all being of the old type, cheap, small, and

Return to Goodliffe home page

Last updated: 10/09/2017