#friar park

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Photo by Mike Salisbury.

“There was a beautiful rock garden, with a waterfall and boulders as big as a Volkswagen. And there was a lake that flowed over a 3-foot waterfall onto another lake. Olivia told me that Paul would come by once in a while. She said he [George] and Paul would leave the house and go down by the lake. She’d see them, chattering away and walking with their arms around each others’ necks.” - Duane Eddy, The Tennesseean, December 1, 2001

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Hidden cave at Friar Park

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George and his literal Castel 🏰

My love for the Friar Park is undescribable 😭🧡

I'm actually number 1 hater of capitalism but if I was as rich as George I'd also buy me a literal Castel

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From countrylife.uk.com

It's amazing what he did with Friar Park.

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oh my god, George stop it 👁️👁️

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Pattie Boyd at Friar Park 1971

Something About the Beatles Girls Facebook page

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Pattie Boyd and George Harrison at Friar Park, 1971

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😎😎

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Photo by Mike Salisbury.

“[George Harrison was] a gentleman who had no ego about him. And that’s unusual in the music business. If you went to his house, there was no butler to answer the door. Either he or Olivia came and greeted you. Most of the big artists become like royalty. I don’t crave the company of most of them. But I loved spending time with George. He was a nice, sweet person.” - Norbert Putnam, Clarion-Ledger, March 22, 2004

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Friar Park topiary garden throughout the years: top, 1970 (credit: Barry Feinstein); bottom left, original Victorian era; bottom right, 2023 (credit: Clive Nichols)

Harrison sometimes referred to the house at Friar Park as Crackerbox Palace, but, in 1970, it needed repair. Years later, he recalled the condition of the house at the time of his purchase: ‘It was all rotting—and nobody was interested. They were trying to pull it down and destroy it.’ He added, with justifiable pride: ‘Now, it’s a listed building.’

Repairing the house was a massive undertaking, but every part of the garden also called out for attention, as Harrison began to uncover and appreciate the structure of what remained of Crisp’s dramatic garden after nearly 30 years of neglect. Mrs Harrison has vivid memories of these years of rediscovery: ‘George used garden flame-throwers to clear the undergrowth and put two goats to clear the weeds and brambles on the rock garden. He hired and oversaw a team of local builders, who cleared ceramics and shopping trolleys out of the lake, which the nuns had allowed to be used as a dumping ground. And he personally oversaw the workmen he hired to cement the leaks and lay new pipework so that the lakes could be filled again.’ The topiary garden was completely overgrown, reduced to an impenetrable sea of bushes that had grown into each other and overrun by such weeds as ivy and brambles. Sir Frank’s sundials had long since disappeared.

From Country Life on George Harrison's restoration of Friar Park gardens (December 2023)

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George Picture of the Day 5-16-24

Christmas at the Harrison's.

Thank you to owner.

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Maureen with her children in Friar Park, 1977🌹🌹🌹

Via Something About The Beatles’ Girls FB🌹

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this is where i post from btw

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If you want to understand George and Pattie better, I could not recommend these strange docs enough.

Friar park is more intricate than I could ever imagine, oh and it turned out, Pattie was the one who found it.

For such a long time I though that Pattie left George because he was too immersed in his garden and the spiritual world and not enough in her, but she was the one who got him into most of these things, from finding the Maharishi to finding Friar Park.

Certainly made me rethink their relationship a lot.