The Curio

Bizarre exhibition at the spiritual home of British eccentricity | the Daily Mail:

“One ancestor killed a pair of tigers in these woods - just six miles from Sheffield. Another invented a tiny revolver for shooting wasps while his wife lavished a small fortune on a psychic pig (her reckless spending would eventually land her in jail). Their children were a famously odd literary trio and the idiosyncratic streak continues through to the present incumbent of sprawling, haunted Renishaw Hall.”