RSR Meet at Copped Hall, Essex

[The Rovering Member]

We attended a small display arranged by the Rover Sports Register a couple of weeks ago. It was part of an open day at Copped Hall near Epping, Essex. It was the venue where A Midsummer Nights Dream was first performed & more recently, Rod Stewart sold his property on the estate which he had owned for many years.
For much of the last century it was a ruin, after a fire in the 1920's but in the nineties it was purchased by a trust who are gradually restoring it. A phenomenal amount of work has been carried out since l last visited when it was at the height of it's dereliction & it's looking grand, l must say. It has the largest walled garden in the U.K which is looking beautiful as well as the rest of the grounds & the house, though much work remains to be done. Well worth a visit, especially if you're part of a car display which gets you into the grounds.

I'm testing the site's photo-hosting with this too.

[The Rovering Member]

A few more pictures. Not sure how to turn the portrait pictures round. They show correctly on my phone.

By the way, the M25 was put through the grounds of the estate & if you look to your right as you exit the Epping tunnel on the anti-clockwise carriageway, you can see the house.

Shakespeare's premier of 'Dream' would have been at the old Tudor hall which is currently under archeological investigation. His wife had family connections to the house, IIRC.