A National Trust Miscellany: The National Trust's Greatest Secrets & Surprises (National Trust)

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Staggering statistics, strange facts and all kinds of surprising stuff from the National Trust. Haunted houses, baffling objects, bizarre buildings and distinctly curious characters.
Who needs an upside-down lighthouse How can you tell a gargoyle from a hunky punk What are the top 10 historical toilets Wheres the best place to see a UFO Why would you hang toast on a tree

Welcome to this smorgasbord ofstrangely compelling facts and figures about the National Trust.

Find out what lurks under the floorboardsof its grandest homes and hides behind theshrubs in its gardens. Meet some of the curiouscharacters who lived at its properties,and discover the unusual jobs carried outby its staff. Pit your wits againstNational Trust curators to identifythe oddest things in their care.

For secrets, surprises andstrange things of all kinds, read on.

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Ian Allen is a father of three teenagers and a funny man indeed. He has been a freelance editor from Staffordshire - recently voted Englands least amusing county - for the past 15 years and during that time Ian has worked on dozens of joke books, a handful of which were even intended to be comical. Ian is qualified to degree-level in Data Processing, which is also hilarious.