I'm writing my dissertation on Victorian Gothic Revival and found this archive incredibly helpful. The information about the proportional distortions in the east wing is fascinating. Has anyone been able to explain the measurement discrepancies yet?

My grandmother worked in service at a manor house in Northumberland in the 1930s. She never spoke of it by name, but some of the details here match stories she told. Particularly about the east wing being "wrong" and certain rooms that were never to be entered. She passed in 1998 but I still have her letters if the Trust would find them useful.

Thank you for maintaining this archive. I visited the property grounds (externally only, of course) last summer. Even from outside the fence, there's something about the place that makes you want to leave. I took several photographs but they all came out overexposed. Very strange.

I've been researching my family history and discovered a connection to a worker who died during the manor's construction. His name was among the "foreign laborers" mentioned in parish records. My great-great-grandfather's letters home stopped suddenly in 1869. The last one mentioned "shapes in the stone circle at night" and feeling unwell. I'd like to know more about what happened to the workers.

I was a colleague of Harold Finch at Cambridge. After his Blackthorn study was published, he was never quite the same. He refused to discuss the property and became visibly distressed if pressed. I always wondered what he saw that didn't make it into the book. This archive raises more questions than it answers.

The folklore about the Blackthorn property goes back much further than the manor. Local families have stories passed down for generations about the stone circle. "Don't go there after dark" is practically a proverb. Children in the area still won't play near the fence line.