Reporters: JEREMY JAMES
JEANNE LA CHARD, JOHN PITMAN
JACK PIZZEY , DESMOND WILCOX HAROLD WILLIAMSON
This week: Goodbve to All That
When 27-year-old Alexa Scott-Plummer's father died in a hunting accident leaving to his only daughter a Scottish baronial mansion and 1,000 acres of land, there was a problem: Alexa preferred living in London. So Sunderland Hall was put up for sale. The asking price: half a million pounds.
A buyer was found, so Alexa's mother and grandmother must leave the Hall. And the servants, and the farm manager, and the groom; and the shepherd and the tractor driver - all now stand to lose their jobs and their homes. For a whole happily feudal community it is an end to a 300-year-old way of life.
JOHN PERCIVAL reports on all the people at Sunderland Hall as they say Goodbye to All That.
Producer JAMES KENELM CLARKE Editor ADAM CLAPHAM