Book Day Tickets
A page taken from Harewood House Cellar Records listing the alcohol stored below stairs, stock count, added amount and total.

Harewood Cellar Records

  • Past Exhibitions
Harewood's historic cellar records show large quantities of fine wines and spirits bought and consumed from the 18th century onwards.
An oil painting showing a rocky cliff behind a large lake. A small fishing boat with three people can be seen drifting between a gap in rocks. The sky is bright blue but with gathering clouds to the right. In the front centre, three men stand next to a fishing boat on it's side on the banks of the lake.

Plompton Rocks

  • British Landscape
A set of paintings on the far side of each fireplace in the Main Library depict the local beauty spot Plompton Rocks. 
Five miniature hand cast bronze Baobab trees stand proudly on a desk in the Old Library at Harewood.

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  • Black History
Bronze cast baobab trees, a symbol of resilience as it thrives where little else does and whose bark and fruit…
A black and white historic photographic portrait of a Black man, George 'Bertie' Robinson, probably in his teens. He is shown three-quarter-length, standing with one arm on a chair and the other in his pocket. He wears a formal tweed-style suit with waistcoat and tie.

Portrait of Bertie Robinson

  • British Portraiture
  • Black History
In 1893, at the age of just 13, George ‘Bertie’ Robinson, became the first (and only) Black member of staff…
Tall stems of orange tinted bamboo shoot high into the sky creating a wall across the path through the Himalayan Garden

Phyllostachys aurea ‘Holochrysa’

  • Sino-Himalayan Plants
This spectacular variety of bamboo is an improved form of the ‘Golden Fishpole bamboo’ from China. It produces the largest, fastest-growing culms of all the bamboos growing in the Himalayan Garden.
Tiny red and yellow flowers hand from star shaped leaves on a single long stem.

Calanthe tricarinata

  • Sino-Himalayan Plants
This splendid species of terrestrial orchid is one of a number that have been planted in the Himalayan Garden over the past two decades.
A large historic interior with cinnamon-coloured damask walls and various portraits. In the centre of the room is a black, square-shaped games table with aluminium dominoes.

Open Code

  • Black History
  • British Furniture
This games table was designed for playing dominoes, a game that is an intrinsic part of Jamaican culture.

Daphne bholua ‘Jaqueline Postill’

  • Sino-Himalayan Plants
This beautiful, high altitude daphne is known as the Nepalese Paper plant and is one of the earliest flowering shrubs in the Himalayan Garden.
A tall tree with textured brown bark and clusters of brown leaves swaying gently in the breeze beneath a bright blue sky.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

  • Sino-Himalayan Plants
Known as the Dawn Redwood or the Chinese Water Fir, this fast-growing, deciduous conifer is one of a kind in the plant world and has a remarkable history.
A darkly lit image of some shelving in a cellar at Harewood House. On the shelves are 6 bottles of rum encrusted with deep layers of dirt, mould and cobwebs.

Rum bottles

  • Past Exhibitions
  • Black History
These bottles were part of a series of 26 found in Harewood's cellars in 2011.