6000 x 4000 px | 50,8 x 33,9 cm | 20 x 13,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1 juin 2020
Lieu:
Hampden House, Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England
Informations supplémentaires:
Hampden House takes its name from the Hampden family who lived in a house on this site continuously from before the Norman Conquest in 1066 until 1938. The current building is Tudor but received a 'Strawberry Hill Gothic' style makeover in the 1750s that pre dated the actual Strawberry Hill by some 20 years. Its most notable resident was John Hampden , a leading opponent of King Charles I following the imposition of the 'Ship Money' tax. Hampden was one of the 5 MPs that King Charles I hoped to arrest when he entered the House of Commons with his troops in 1642, leading Charles to exclaim 'I see the birds have flown'. This was one of the events that helped trigger the English Civil War . Hampden died from wounds sustained at the Battle of Chalgrove in 1643 and is buried in the adjacent church in an unmarked grave. Ironically. the church was used to portray Oliver Cromwell's local church in the 1970 feature film 'Cromwell' starring Richard Harris (in which Cromwell was inaccurately shown as one of those MPs who the King wished to arrest in the Commons). Hampden House was for a while, home to Hammer Films, and was regularly seen in the Hammer House Of Horror TV series in 1980. NB in 1936, the Handley Page Hampden bomber was named after John Hampden
