The Morgans of Tredegar House : Newport South Wales

Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales Tredegar House,  Newport, South Wales In The Post Virus World Is this the Shape of things to Come?   The National Trust works  in a mysterious way, but there are leaks. A recent article in the ‘Daily Mail’  [1]  revealed a “secret 17- page memo  [2] described on its front page as ‘a ten year vision’  [3] .. “described by the Mail as making “ chilling reading for those who cherish  [The Trust’s] traditional role of preserving great homes and their contents”.  [4]   The memo attacks the Trust’s ‘outdated mansion experience, serving a loyal but dwindling audience’ and proposes an ‘urgent review of the opening hours of properties, along with a policy of putting art and antiques collections into storage so rooms can be used to develop “ new sources of experience –based income.”  [5]   If this unattractive scenario is the fate of Tredegar House i.e. to be in the words of a Trust insider a property...