{"id":4559,"date":"2018-01-31T04:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2018-03-23T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T00:27:39","slug":"silence-demanded-in-londons-most-breathtaking-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/silence-demanded-in-londons-most-breathtaking-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence Demanded in London\u2019s MOST Breathtaking House!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s the most jaw dropping tourist attraction you\u2019ve ever heard about \u2013 but never seen? As a travel journalist I\u2019ve been privileged to see a smorgasbord of marvelously memorable sights around the world. None can hold a candle to the famous Dennis Severs House in Spitalfields, London<\/a>. Now, wait a minute, I hear you say, \u201cI\u2019ve never heard that <\/em><\/strong>name, besides, what on earth is Spitalfields?\u201d Yeah, I know Brits use funny names, but Spitalfields?<\/p>\n

\"Dennis
Photo Courtesy: Visit London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What\u2019s equally extraordinary \u2013 particularly as this house in London is<\/u> one of THE most hard-to-believe tourist attractions anywhere \u2013 is that Dennis Severs was born in Escondido, California on November 16th<\/sup>, 1948, and you\u2019d think with a multitude of history pouring out of every creaking historic building in Britain, why wasn\u2019t THIS\u00a0 offbeat idea\u00a0 put forward by a Brit? While he was growing up in the sunshine of California, Dennis became captivated by what he called \u201cThe English Light\u201d and, on turning 17, he came to Great Britain<\/a> to find a home that, as he stated, had \u201cheart.\u201d He found it at 17 Folgate Street, in the London district<\/u><\/strong> of Spitalfields. Sadly only 51 years after he was born, Severs died December 27th<\/sup>, 1999.<\/p>\n

\"The
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I\u2019ve always loved the eccentric and unconventional things in life \u2013 especially in travel \u2013 so I was riveted by the information that Severs\u2019 wanted to re-create what it was like to live in a house of the Dickens era and, so I learned, wanted to make 17 Folgate Street unique. He demanded that touring his House would be \u201ca very personal experience you\u2019d never forget. It\u2019s exceptionally important to me,\u201d he told a friend, \u201cto give each room in my house, its own soul.\u201d\u00a0 Did he ever.<\/p>\n

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Entering the ornate 18th<\/sup> Century doorway on Folgate Street — that made me feel I was entering the world of Downton Abbey<\/em> — the House guide \u2013 in hushed, British tones<\/em> \u2013 said we mustn\u2019t speak, as the tour must be done and enjoyed by each \u201cGuest,\u201d in complete and absolute silence! My curiosity overcame me, and I said, \u201cWhy is silence requested?\u201d The object of the tour, I was advised, is that everyone, in a totally personal way, uses their imagination to picture what\u2019s been going on in each room and, even more intriguing, who has left or who is coming back. \u201cTalking,\u201d my guide said in a whisper, \u201cdisrupts that train of thought.\u201d This unique concept grabbed my attention like nothing ever had before so, when my tour began, I heard the creak of footsteps on the old, wooden staircase of a resident going to their room. As the magic of 17 Folgate Street took hold, I also identified the sounds of muted whispers and opening of doors above and below me and, best of all, the comforting melodies of those wonderful old clocks ticking away in that one-of-a-kind sound so reminiscent of yesteryear, and my nostrils clearly sensed that particularly British aroma of an old man smoking his pipe.<\/p>\n

\"Dickensian
Photo Courtesy: Roelof Bakker (www.rbakker.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the cellar to the 4th<\/sup> floor, a series of rooms are filled with original, true-to-the 1800 period furniture and many other period artifacts. But what’s so bizarre is that you <\/b>actually get the feeling of occupants having just left or, in some cases, they\u2019ll return momentarily. The Living Room, with the warmth of a real fire in the hearth, and a breakfast table with a half-finished egg; a rumpled bed upstairs as if the occupant had, seconds before, gone to get washed up and ready for the day; clothes laid out in another room so you feel he or she, might have gone to check London\u2019s notorious weather to determine what to wear. I recommend you visit this remarkable house. I love Severs\u2019 motto for the House. \u201cAut Visum aut Non!\u201d \u2013 \u201cYou either see it \u2013 or you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit the Dennis Severs’ House website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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