Lived: Dunster, Bicknoller
Recording made: 2002
Length of recording: 1 hr 50 mins
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JULIAN LUTTRELL
Born:
London, 1932
Lived:
Dunster,
Bicknoller
Recording made: 2002
Length of recording:
1 hr 50 mins
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Julian Luttrell says Dunster castle was a wonderful place to be brought up. The family had been there since 1372 and the house meant so much more than bricks and mortar. He sees it not as a castle, but as a home. He played with his friends, from school or village, spent time with the estate workers, and adapted to the house being a convalescent home in the war.
After national service he ran an engineering business with a friend, before moving back to take on the tenancy of Home Farm. When his older brother inherited the castle, and made it over to the National Trust, Julian and his family moved to the foot of the Quantocks, where he breeds longhorn cattle. He still rents Home Farm.
He believes that if you have had the advantages of a wonderful home, surrounded by wonderful countryside and wonderful people, it is incumbent on you to put something back into society.