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iron lung, Lord Nuffield, Morris Motors, National Trust, Nuffield Foundation, Nuffield Place, Oxford colleges, Wolseley
The final National Trust property we visited was Nuffield Place, the surprisingly modest – in the circumstances – house built by William Morris, founder of Morris Motors in Oxford, later to become Lord Nuffield. Unsurprisingly, we saw a few cars.
Lady Nuffield’s Wolseley
We wandered in the gardens.
We saw a small shed containing this iron lung. 
Lord Nuffield gave 5000 of them, made at his factory in Cowley, to hospitals throughout the British Empire. £12,000,000 was an awful lot of money in the 1930s.
We went into the house. 
The robes worn by Lord and Lady Nuffield at the 1937 Coronation
In Lady Nuffield’s bedroom
In Lord Nuffield’s bedroom. Really.
Personally I found the order of this more appealing.
Opinions between us differed as to whether we liked this bathroom.
The double spare bedroom
‘The horn of Plenty’. Oxford colleges benefit from Lord Nuffield’s wealth. The Nuffield Foundation continues to ‘improve social well-being through education, research, and innovation’
A trip to the woods was the treat on the last day of my visit.
Musiewild's blog 
The garden looked lovely through your photographs and the house interesting. What a generous man he was and his foundation after him.
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Seems to have been a modest and generous man – though he had plenty to be generous with!
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Love the old cars – and that iron lung wouldn’t be out of place in Dr Who! xx
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Seems that iron lungs are no longer used – I can remember frequent refernces to them in my younger days.
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I found that closet rather interesting and in a bedroom.😄 Can’t make up my mind which is prettier… the old cars or the flowers!
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Apparently Lord N was just mad keen on tinkering. What better then, than to have your tools in the bedroom! You might have inspiration during the night!
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Thank you for the tour, Musiewild! I loved the tool and workbench closet in Lord Nuffield’s bedroom. 🙂
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I preferred the dressing table in Lady N’s!
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Yes, iron lungs figured largely as a terror in our younger days. You had a very good selection of places to visit on your tour.
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The choice was entirely thanks to my hosts.
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The iron lung looks rather frightening – but great that it saved lives and that Lord Nuffield was so generous.
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Just imagine spending most of your life in one – as some used to.
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