National Trust

About National Trust
The National Trust is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in the United Kingdom, operating in England, Wales and Northern Ireland only.
On the show — 42 mentions total
The founding story of the National Trust has a lot of great characters at its beginning. There were sort of three founders — a lawyer, clergyman, and a social reformer. Sounds like a salvo joke, doesn't it? A lawyer, a priest, and a social reformer walking down...
from 432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 at 00:22:29 · read transcript
Other times National Trust came up
Because it's volunteers who do it. It's, you know, there are dozens of people who go and they, they trim the grass verges because obviously it's cut into a chalk hillside. They interviewed the National Trustman because some chalk figures have now been redone in concrete, which is obviously easier. Actually, obviously, it's not very historical and it's a bit lazy. The National Trustman called Martin Papworth said, I think there would be an outcry if we tried to cut corners, says, Papworth, who, ironically, is here to help cut the corners.
No Such Thing As A Frothy Beer, 2020-05-15 · listen
Sorry, Bishop called Frederick Temple. Yes. Yes. Good pause. Good pause for that. Octavia Hill as well. Hill National Trust. Oh, yeah. Because the first thing that was donated to the National Trust was a hill side. Really? Yeah. By something, someone called Fanny Tolbert. That one of the lawyer that was one of the trio was Robert Hunter. He's a lawyer. Lawyers are like hunters. They're like, find it.
432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 · listen
In the club, we refer to each other. Anyway, after he died, Francis Dashwood, then his heirs called in Capability Brown, the famous garden designer to remove quite a lot of the more sordid elements of the garden. You could still visit. Do you know what the membership, anyone know the membership price for National Trust or a single person? I don't. I have been a member. You know, Benjamin, how much is that in the States?
432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 · listen
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- Wembley · United Kingdom
- Colby Woodland Garden · United Kingdom
- Paris Observatory · France
- Bank Station · United Kingdom
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