HUGE Abandoned Mansion Of A Portuguese Musician 1888 - He Lost His Family

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    In this episode of the Portugal series, we travel to a remote forgotten village. High up in the village there we found a forgotten abandoned mansion. The place was build in 1888 by a very traditional religious Portugees family. The mansion passed from father to son and eventually landed in the last generation. This Sun was a musician and he composed classical music. In 1970 he got into a nasty divorce with his wife, he cheated on her and took all the children with her. He lived in this place alone until 1980 when he decided to leave it behind as well. It was just too huge for him and he had nobody to share it with. Until this day the places stay abandoned and there is nobody to care for it. Join us on an incredible adventure!
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    HUGE Abandoned Mansion Of A Portuguese Musician 1888 - He Lost His Family

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  • @babyjane1996
    @babyjane1996 Před 4 lety +133

    Your camera work is so good. I don't get dizzy watching your videos. You are so respectful of the beautiful locations you show us.

    • @ladylaois8184
      @ladylaois8184 Před 4 lety +2

      Celia Bass I agree professional

    • @paulakayschmidt7002
      @paulakayschmidt7002 Před 4 lety +3

      Jordy's camera work is very good. Also, the room with all the chests, I have to wonder if they were not Hope Chests. This is something that used to be done where a girl child would save linens and other items she would need to start her own household one day. I have even done one for my daughter, who is 23 and is moving out this weekend. :) - :(

    • @shirleycrawford7119
      @shirleycrawford7119 Před 4 lety

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    • @shirleycrawford7119
      @shirleycrawford7119 Před 4 lety

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    • @justinwhite6787
      @justinwhite6787 Před 3 lety +1

      And the music is always so nice! Very calming.

  • @nancyhooper7715
    @nancyhooper7715 Před 4 lety +66

    I believe the vertical piano was actually a harpsichord. A very unusual one at that! I appreciate so much your respect for the properties you visit.

    • @paulakayschmidt7002
      @paulakayschmidt7002 Před 4 lety +2

      that's what i thought! Thanks for the confirmation.

    • @layna8924
      @layna8924 Před 2 lety +1

      THESE PRICELESS GEMS LEFT TO ROT IS A CRIME OF HISTORICAL MAKINGS...WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE PEOPLE WHO OWNED THESE PLACES AND EVEN THE GOVT. FOR ALLOWING THESE PAGES OF HISTORY TO BE FORGOTTEN & TO FALL INTO RUIN? SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TO ALTER THIS...;)

  • @tamarrajames3590
    @tamarrajames3590 Před 4 lety +49

    The woman’s drawings are patterns for embroidering table runners and linens etc. I love Portugal, and find it so sad that as this lifestyle passes out of being realistic...the remnants are left this way to fade away as if they never were. So much beautiful antique furniture just left behind...so sad. I could enjoy spending the rest of my years trying to preserve these silent observers of human life. Thank you, and please stay safe.🖤🇨🇦

    • @abbiekenyon5942
      @abbiekenyon5942 Před 2 lety +2

      ... and the upkeep, taxes, etc would have been quite "a pretty penny" indeed.

  • @711bbd
    @711bbd Před 4 lety +96

    I can't be the only one feeling sad watching this?

    • @sarahfarrell8214
      @sarahfarrell8214 Před 4 lety +9

      It is sad because it was a beautiful loving home at one time!

    • @ladylaois8184
      @ladylaois8184 Před 4 lety +6

      Raya especially the photos of the dear children

    • @oneilperry5409
      @oneilperry5409 Před 4 lety +14

      This made me sad as well but I couldn't help bit watch all.I came from a broken home as well.So many lives are destroyed for carnal desires.The eternal lies of Satan that we can do anything we wish.I hope some of the children and the woman found happiness after this tragic betrayal.

    • @SiobhanChiffon
      @SiobhanChiffon Před 3 lety +2

      That's funny. I'm always telling them--out loud--to slow down while the camera is zipping past something I only catch a glimpse of. 😄

    • @cindybogart6062
      @cindybogart6062 Před 3 lety +2

      No…. I also become sad sharing all these videos & their stories… especially when photos are left behind like that.

  • @lindagreen1105
    @lindagreen1105 Před 4 lety +157

    The woman was not into tattoo. These were embroidery iron on patterns you then put needle and thread to for different things. Pillow cases. Dish towels. Blouses. Very beautiful things when done.

    • @karen4you
      @karen4you Před 4 lety +16

      Yes, those are boughten patterns that have been sold for years. Nice to know she had hobbies even with such a big family to care for.

    • @kellykeller9640
      @kellykeller9640 Před 4 lety +24

      You can tell the younger generation from the older ones...makes you want to jump inside the video and tell him what things actually are...he misses it quite a bit...at least he tries...such sweet young men...God bless.

    • @karen4you
      @karen4you Před 4 lety +12

      @@kellykeller9640 Have you ever seen the video of teens trying to figure out how to use a rotary telephone? They had a very hard time understanding that ancient technology we all lived with.

    • @lindagreen1105
      @lindagreen1105 Před 4 lety +10

      @@kellykeller9640 Yes they are sweet. They have a respect for older people. I have been watching them for a long time. God Bless us all.

    • @ladansari
      @ladansari Před 4 lety +6

      Oh ok Fabric tattooing

  • @tracywarbritton2811
    @tracywarbritton2811 Před 4 lety +42

    Beautiful mansion. Just imagine how magnificent if this mansion was renovated back to its original beauty 💜

  • @webbit1518
    @webbit1518 Před 4 lety +12

    This reminds me of the tv show....Mr Rogers Neighborhood...Soft music,child-like explanation, everyone is soft-spoken and quiet...Waiting for him to say "would you like to be my neighbor"

  • @lissanne9769
    @lissanne9769 Před 4 lety +18

    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries little girls were given "hope chests". Just like the one's seen at the beginning of this video. The parents would buy each girl one of them to store photos, letters, fabric, and items from life to take with them when they were married. That is why most of the chests were made from cedar so as to keep the cridders out. Once the girls were married, they would store the wedding dress and memorabilia like ribbons in the chest. Each of my great aunts had one. Only one aunt kept her wedding dress in hers.

    • @jethrojackson2524
      @jethrojackson2524 Před 3 lety +1

      Also called "Trusoe" chests

    • @abbiekenyon5942
      @abbiekenyon5942 Před 2 lety

      ... to keep the critters out ...

    • @Meowmeter
      @Meowmeter Před 2 lety

      Yes that’s where single girls would keep their “enxoval”, items offered to them to take to their married life (bed sheets, bed covers, tableware, etc)

  • @emaneabdallah4501
    @emaneabdallah4501 Před 4 lety +29

    I wish that this family lived in this beautiful mansion and enjoyed every moment of their life without having to separate💔. If they did; maybe their children and grandchildren would have taken care of this place.

  • @chuckandmax7313
    @chuckandmax7313 Před 4 lety +54

    In a big formal mansion, there would be a cloak room, that their guests would leave their coats with the servants and the servant would give them a tag that corresponded to the tag on the hanger. This would happen at big formal gatherings or large dinners. You have to take into consideration that there were probably 30 or so family members and servants that all lived there and they would have a lot of guests and it would be hard for a servant to remember who’s coat went to who.
    That ante room is like a gathering room where people would have drinks or chat in between times that they were dining. I would imagine the actual dining room would have a very large table and a lot of chairs.
    There are a lot of great antiques there that I would love to have and restore, so sad that they are just sitting there decaying. I love that secretary desk that you opened up, I would take that in a minute. I think that was not a piano, I think it was a harpsichord. There’s so much beautiful Portuguese tile everywhere, I love tile and would love to see that place either get restored or stripped for its antiquities so they can be recycled, there’s just no reason to let them just rot away. In those benches you would store the cushions and pillows.
    The chapel was just gorgeous and very common to have in a mansion of that period. The plaster ceiling was so nice. The blue cabinet room was not the kitchen, it was probably the butlers pantry or the scullery. The kitchen would have had a very huge fireplace and ovens and work tables, but that blue cupboard room was not big enough to be the actual kitchen.
    I think those drawings were stencils for doing embroidery. I’m sure there were a lot of rooms you did not explore.

    • @lilalias1189
      @lilalias1189 Před 4 lety +9

      ChuckandMax my aunt made such embroidies her family still keep some of them put on tables even small ones under the glasses of water

    • @savannakokitka2582
      @savannakokitka2582 Před 3 lety +3

      Isnt is amazing??? Thanks for sharing !

    • @abbiekenyon5942
      @abbiekenyon5942 Před 2 lety +1

      The blue kitchen may have been a kitchen for the servants, etc.

    • @abbiekenyon5942
      @abbiekenyon5942 Před 2 lety +3

      @@lilalias1189 ... called "doilies" for under the glasses (or cups) to protect the wooden table.

  • @margara61
    @margara61 Před 2 lety +2

    I can't stop watching your videos, even though it breaks my heart thinking of the lives of their dwellers, the happines, sadness, tribulation, all kinds of events, feelings, and to see how everything has been left behind that now It doesn't mean anything to anyone. It is moving.

  • @lladylobo1
    @lladylobo1 Před 4 lety +26

    The tiles are so beautiful. I noticed a different tile pattern fo each room. Nice explore.

    • @vanessasimmons1175
      @vanessasimmons1175 Před 3 lety

      I thought that too! Beautiful

    • @Jayapullani
      @Jayapullani Před 3 lety

      Exceptionally beautiful tiles and the way it was decorated, not over the top, just perfect.

  • @sahia4
    @sahia4 Před 4 lety +40

    With this couple having so many children..and probably grandchildren and great grandchildren by now..I can't figure out why someone didn't take some of the items out of there.

    • @kangirigungi
      @kangirigungi Před 4 lety +1

      Actually, most of the things are gone. There is mostly only furniture left, and not too many of them either, which is probably just too difficult to move.

    • @ethelchapman6780
      @ethelchapman6780 Před 4 lety +7

      14 children umpteen dozens grand great a great great. ECT...
      So why can they not if not furniture retrieve the family photos. The furniture alone would easily sell . Generation now have no empathy for heritage photos or anything...
      Such a gorgeous home....

    • @juneliad1160
      @juneliad1160 Před 4 lety +2

      Children or greatgrandchildren must live this house again.

    • @jbncnow
      @jbncnow Před 4 lety +1

      @@ethelchapman6780 Alchohol causes a lot of anger and resentment and people just write you off as if you never exisited

    • @thomaspage869
      @thomaspage869 Před 4 lety +2

      I just don’t get it, I love going through my Nan’s storage room and china cabinets and I would love to have an old ancestral home, but then there are the people why just don’t care or get it!

  • @philipchretienkarlsson8157
    @philipchretienkarlsson8157 Před 4 lety +10

    Damn, it's a grand house: just look at those velvet pelmets above the doors, the azulejos, and the furniture. It's almost madness to have left it... Needs a bit of fixing up, but it would be a pleasure to move in it, as long as the vibes are good. You guys tell me . Cheers, to you both, Jordy and Jaimy !
    PS: you are quite right about this beautiful piano. They are called, I think upright "Lyre Pianos", and are very rare, especially this one, which still has its action still more or less playing. This piano would be the pride of a museum, where it belongs, and is well worth restoring to a level of perfect playing: a great rarity, indeed.

  • @donnashomin357
    @donnashomin357 Před 4 lety +9

    The tiles in this home are amazing and worth a fortune.

  • @rebeccastreet5811
    @rebeccastreet5811 Před rokem +3

    I have been watching your channel for a long while now and you guys are so respectful. You tell great stories and with a lot of feeling. Even the stories you make up sound so real. You always seem to leave places better than when you arrive. I respect that. It would not be that way here in the USA ashamed to say. Some of the places are so grand. I think it’s sad how all the valuables are left just to ruin. I often wonder if the peoples families ever see your videos and ever contact you? I appreciate all your work. I know I will never go to the country’s you travel to and I can thru your videos. Thank you! Rebecca Egberdina Monk
    Richlands, Virginia
    Keep up the good work!

  • @marybethsmith6458
    @marybethsmith6458 Před 4 lety +17

    This was a beautiful home and very large. The desk is called a secretary and was a staple of homes as early as the 1500's in England and other countries. The term "Grand Piano" is used for a specific type of piano not the standard upright. The piano in the tall cabinet was very unique. The paper with artwork shown at the end was for embroidery or needlework. Stay safe and have fun.

    • @giovanna8187
      @giovanna8187 Před 4 lety +3

      Yes, that was a harpsichord which has strings that are plucked rather than hit with hammers as a piano does.

  • @beejer03
    @beejer03 Před 4 lety +8

    One of your best videos in my opinion. You did an excellent job with your introduction & choice of music throughout. Good job all the way around.

    • @beejer03
      @beejer03 Před 3 lety +1

      @@christophermuller3180 I'm sorry

    • @_Julie_Bee
      @_Julie_Bee Před 3 lety +1

      I actually had trouble concentrating because it was Christmas music 😂

    • @trishrogers7981
      @trishrogers7981 Před 4 měsíci

      absolutely

  • @milliesmith8202
    @milliesmith8202 Před 2 lety +1

    no matter how broken down these places are you show a spiritual respect. thankyou guys for all the work you put into these videos. lotsa love from australia x

  • @frankgyori2740
    @frankgyori2740 Před 4 lety +12

    I remember my Grandmother had those types of drawings. They were used as transfers for embroidery. They were ironed on to fabric and the tissue would be removed leaving a pattern could be easily followed.

  • @arielsarino2823
    @arielsarino2823 Před 4 lety +31

    Though it's already March it was interesting to hear "O Holy Night " piano background music. So sad to see another fantastic residence go to decay. You guys find the most extraordinary places to explore. It's fascinating that you have allowed us to share in your experiences.

  • @ms.krueger2660
    @ms.krueger2660 Před 4 lety +22

    Why???? 😡Why leave this stuff to rot? That piano is amazing!! Such a waste. 😢😟😩

    • @lissam956
      @lissam956 Před 4 lety +3

      Maybe the kids were mad at him and never looked back when they left. It happens a lot.

  • @wendymcfadyen-allerby6142

    Lovely home still despite all the decay, super cool explore. Greetings to all and thank you

  • @tracywhited
    @tracywhited Před 4 lety +25

    The lady’s art you found is embroidery patterns

    • @lissanne9769
      @lissanne9769 Před 4 lety +2

      You are correct. I even recognized some of the patterns Lesley took out. You can still buy iron on embroidery patterns on-line.

  • @GaranceEagle
    @GaranceEagle Před 3 lety +2

    You are the best! Finally Meaningful comments and stories on top of high quality videos. Thank you!

  • @lindabarraza2433
    @lindabarraza2433 Před 4 lety +9

    Such beauty rotting away. So sad.

  • @shirleyharrison2580
    @shirleyharrison2580 Před 4 lety +7

    Another great video boys !
    So many pieces beautiful old furniture left in there. Love the chests/trunks & the wood chests too.
    Thanks for sharing & letting us see all the wonderful places, houses you explore.

  • @algidxVo22ylEt
    @algidxVo22ylEt Před 4 lety +1

    This place is astoundingly beautiful. I really enjoy seeing the details you show - the tile, upholstery, woodwork, etc. One the the highest quality abandoned videos I've seen!

  • @anitadriggers3965
    @anitadriggers3965 Před 4 lety +3

    Greetings from North Florida! I absolutely loved this explore! I love how respectful you are as well. Even though nature has begun to take over, the mansion is still exquisite, One can only dream what it was like when it was new! Thank You! ❤️

  • @leslieborden5650
    @leslieborden5650 Před 4 lety +4

    What a shame, all of the furniture left behind. It looked like it was a nice home at one time. All that tile so pretty. I can just imagine how this place looked in its Glory. Great video guys!! 👍🙋✌️

  • @elderlypoodle9181
    @elderlypoodle9181 Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you for this. I bet many of us can smell the wonderful aroma of old wood through your filming. I felt very comfortable looking at the rooms and contents. This home really made me feel at ease. 🙏🏻

  • @moonchild7222
    @moonchild7222 Před 4 lety +4

    I found this video especially interesting as my husband has an ancestor from Portugal. They left there to come to the USA in the 1700's but still this is where that family branch came from. Absolutely loved the money desk and the grand piano! Those could both be restored with little problems! Thank you for a glimpse of the world I'd never get to see otherwise.

    • @gtikiller
      @gtikiller Před 4 lety +1

      Where in Portugal are your husband's ancestors from?

  • @barrypiazza5383
    @barrypiazza5383 Před 2 lety

    when I am having the worst day ever. when I just need to stop and calm down . I put on your videos. U have an amazing approach and soothing calmness that helps me in my day . Thank you for all the beautiful places you've taken me. Stay safe .

  • @est2286
    @est2286 Před 3 lety +2

    I really enjoyed your channel. I love historical places. Love love antique furniture. Please keep on entertaining us 👍

  • @elizavetagrishina5990
    @elizavetagrishina5990 Před 4 lety +3

    Those chairs and the bench...a work of art! Thanks for sharing!

  • @barbkeil-burton6894
    @barbkeil-burton6894 Před 2 lety

    Hi Lesley & Danny, What a wonderful looking mansion, with so much history like the blue glass tiles in rooms & furniture & chandeliers, servant quarters & homeowner`s rooms! To still see a house from 1888 anywhere is unique but to see a Portuguese one, somewhere I have never seen. It is sad the children when they grew up didn`t come to this mansion & at least take pictures & the furniture before it decays beyond repair! Thanks so much for showing us everything & for Danny to tell you certain things about it! When you said Piano, I had never seen one like that ever, but reading comments & find out it`s a Harpsichord...but never seen that before either! Shame about the story of Musician Husband & wife finds out he cheated on her & she leaves 1970 & takes the children, & then he stays till 1980 & then he is too lonely to stay & leaves the mansion! Take care both of you & stay safe! Love from Central Illinois USA😊😍

  • @LuisaD93
    @LuisaD93 Před 4 lety +9

    I love this channel sooooo much! Always great content, information about the owners and contents. I also love the way you respect the items in the home and how you handle them so gently and put everything back as you found them. I’m a huge lover of antiques and abandoned homes/places . You guys never disappoint me on your content. Much love and ty for providing us with these gorgeous wonders 🌹😀 p.s those are oil lamps for the evening 😉

  • @Meowmeter
    @Meowmeter Před 2 lety +1

    Hope you guys enjoyed your visit to my beautiful Portugal 💝🇵🇹
    That Singer sewing machine is a coveted item nowadays, they get restored or repurposed… a treasure for vintage lovers … some great furniture pieces there, what a shame😔 those chairs and benches with the wood detail look like Manueline style chairs (Manueline is portuguese gothic). 18:31 in Portugal we call that desk a “escrivaninha”

  • @Luna586
    @Luna586 Před 3 lety +2

    This must have been a very beautiful home. It makes me sad to see it decaying and forgotten 😢

  • @trishrogers7981
    @trishrogers7981 Před 4 měsíci

    I really appreciate the fine details and the care and beauty of times past - the way that even years later those that have passed have a story. This is very nostalgic, I love the craftmanship thats so authentic and the beautiful tiles and details throughout that are Portugese signature - beautiful

  • @PianoHead26
    @PianoHead26 Před 4 lety +18

    The tall piano is a British upright cabinet grand. Strout I think. Its a grand pianoforte in vertical form. Also part of the "Giraffe" piano family of upright grands. Probably from around 1810 - 1815. Mostly the Established date is on the company named of the pianos. That piano is part of keyboard history, can be found in museums, music history books. Would love to have that, too bad its too far away and just left.

    • @PianoHead26
      @PianoHead26 Před 4 lety +7

      Here is a link to Yale University's musical instrument museum. Shows a cabinet upright grand the people are looking at. collections.nmmusd.org/KEYBOARD.HTM

    • @pianorama
      @pianorama Před 3 lety +3

      @@PianoHead26 Thank you. I love old pianos.

  • @MrArtisticsound
    @MrArtisticsound Před 4 lety +3

    These glass oil jars are for oil heaters. when the oil ran out they were refilled and placed in the heater upside down and the oil dripped through the needle and filtered into a circular wick with a wire mesh on the top and it went red glow. We had these heaters in out primary school many years ago. Always remember the teacher replacing the oil jars...memories, ....Mervyn

    • @jewelcopeland3374
      @jewelcopeland3374 Před 4 lety

      Thank you for the information on the oil lamp that was really informative and I enjoyed your description I have learned something new today thanks to you

  • @christinelaurent165
    @christinelaurent165 Před 3 lety

    The furnitures have been cut very rustic and simple. That makes a sober and pure style !!! Very beautiful...

  • @michellelindsay5727
    @michellelindsay5727 Před 4 lety +1

    So sad how infidelity ruined a marriage. Thank you for the fabulous exploration and always your respectfulness of your experience.

  • @brandin551
    @brandin551 Před 4 lety +7

    love to watch your videos, you have so much respect for the places you go thru, thank you for the respect you have

  • @jamesmaynard8604
    @jamesmaynard8604 Před 4 lety +4

    HELLO FROM KENTUCKY USA YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST NEVER DISAPPOINTED 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @MJARTBYDAY
    @MJARTBYDAY Před 4 lety +21

    i would love to know why they leave these beautiful properties to rot and decay. Aw such a sad story and now its abandoned .. so sad. When people pass away their lives are never the same .. as my uncles died and some aunties my grand parents all gone ,y mum with Alzheimer's my dad gone i don't have many family left who want to bother with me because most of them gone they don't want to know anymore. We were real close when they were here but not now things are not the same but that's life it can hurt but you have to make the most of it .. The picture on the bedroom wall is a sketch i know because i sketch portraits with pencils and you rub it to blend your pencils and make all sorts of textures on the drawing. I love to draw i have my own FB page of my work .. Thanks for sharing with us all xxx

    • @Carballoca
      @Carballoca Před 4 lety +3

      MJART BY DAY I think the up keep and maintenance becomes to costly so there left to rot.

    • @MJARTBYDAY
      @MJARTBYDAY Před 4 lety +3

      @@Carballoca yes Pam i agree .. its such a beautiful place its just so sad to see it like that when it was once lived in and loved xxx

    • @-greentoad
      @-greentoad Před 4 lety +2

      MJART BY DAY To big of a place for him after his wife and children left him. He stayed 10 yrs. But just gave up and left. Tried to sell but no one buying.

    • @lissam956
      @lissam956 Před 4 lety +2

      Just Me: don’t forget the cheating part 😜

    • @AGM-ts5bb
      @AGM-ts5bb Před 4 lety

  • @joycemassey3097
    @joycemassey3097 Před 4 lety +2

    That was an amazing explore. I would have loved to live in such a beautiful home. Thank you for the respect that you have for this forgotten history.

  • @livinglife8333
    @livinglife8333 Před 4 lety +40

    He destroyed his entire life and lost his entire family over a one night stand. 😞SMH

    • @ingenuity168
      @ingenuity168 Před 4 lety +5

      Yup. Loser.
      The wife was able to leave him with her children mainly because she had wealthy family support. If she was anything else, she would have to stay in that marital hell.

    • @AGM-ts5bb
      @AGM-ts5bb Před 4 lety +3

      So sad that they could not get past this tragedy and work on being a family. Think of how many people were affected for their whole lives by his actions. Such a heartbreaking betrayal. Forgive and move on, or forgive and stay.

    • @thomaspage869
      @thomaspage869 Před 4 lety +1

      Living Life, what do you mean by nightstand??

    • @mayaozen487
      @mayaozen487 Před 4 lety +3

      I'm sure it was more than just one night stand.

    • @pewaniuk
      @pewaniuk Před 3 lety +1

      @@thomaspage869 A "one night stand" is where someone has a one time "hook-up" with another person

  • @willyegger4488
    @willyegger4488 Před 4 lety +6

    Hi Lesley and Jordy, Bros of Decay, and Danny, I loved your introduction as an off-comment combined with beautiful drone shots
    of this huge abandoned mansion of a Portugese musician. Somehow the story of the last owner of this location, who was divorced
    from his wife, was actually quite sad to hear. - There were beautiful details in some of the rooms to see. - I liked this piano like instrument
    with the vertical string case. - This is a vertical harpsichord, called "Clavicytherium". - During my last visit in Brussels I could see
    such an instrument in this amazing museum of music instruments, located in a breathtaking art nouveau building. Although your
    buddy Danny tried to play, it was not working, because an instrument like this one, has to be tuned regularly. - The three persons
    on the picture you were showing, are three famous composers of the 18th/9th century (L.v.Beethoven, F. Liszt, R.Wagner). - The piano
    notes at the beginning of your video show a part of the sonata, No.17, op.31,2 in d-minor, the so called "storm"-sonata from exactly
    the same Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), from which you found that red old book with a whole collection of his piano sonatas.
    By the way I want to add, that this is absolutely beautiful piano music, I can only recommend to listen. - Wonderful explore! - I enjoyed
    very much watching and listening to your comment. Jordy was also doing a great job with the camera. - I am already looking forward
    to your next videos. Take care and peace to you all! - Wishing you all the best and kindest regards from Switzerland.

    • @BrosOfDecay
      @BrosOfDecay  Před 4 lety +1

      Hey Willy,
      Thank you for the comment 😊 I always enjoy ready the information that we did not manage to find haha I should take you on my explorations... Thanks again for the great time we had in Hasselt hope to see you soon! Kind regards Lesley

    • @willyegger4488
      @willyegger4488 Před 4 lety

      @@BrosOfDecay , Wow! Lesley, what a lovely feedback! - You are very welcome, and it was a great pleasure for me! - Stay safe and kindest regards.

  • @bronxboy131
    @bronxboy131 Před 4 lety +4

    What-an amazing place;The design and architecture of the period is stunning- love the tile work and classic blue-- That music room is amazing also in particular that piano, never saw one like that,and its not full size either(not 88 keys) It kills me when items like that are left behind. You would think with 14 children the extended family would be quite large,yet no one took interest in the antiques left behind?- Wonderful video Leslie !😎☮❤

  • @suichongs4612
    @suichongs4612 Před 3 lety +1

    I love the way you presented the parts and things in the house with your cool voice and so gentle and respect to the place where you are in. I enjoy watching the places and thank you so much. More power Bros and Decay

  • @omarhamid3638
    @omarhamid3638 Před 3 lety +5

    The furniture from that time is priceless and beyond beautiful. A pity they don’t make things to last like that anymore. Any furniture left from our current period would fall part and decay much quicker.
    Sublime video as ever guys, stay safe Lesley and Jordi 😊❤️

  • @georginapantoja7962
    @georginapantoja7962 Před 4 lety +2

    Hello Lesley, Jordy and Danny! Very decayed house but in the same time interesting place . Many of the wood furniture unique . The tile in the wall and bathroom is beautiful. The history of the family is sad because if the man keep respect to his wife the probably the place never left abandoned. Thank you always for sharing ! Please take care of yourselves! 👋🇺🇸😍😘👍👌😽

  • @joanadarkc1406
    @joanadarkc1406 Před 4 lety +4

    Eu gosto muito de ver seus vídeos, eu adoro ver casa e móveis antigo você está de parabéns, vídeos muito bom.

  • @patriciahartless2095
    @patriciahartless2095 Před 4 lety +3

    Thanks for sharing your video. I love the chapel. And the rest of this gorgeous house. Lot of antiques that's still in good shape. Sad that some of the children. Didn't restore it back to its original glory. All of you are very respectable. For everything that you picked up. You place it back in the same place. All three of you have a great day.

    • @abbiekenyon5942
      @abbiekenyon5942 Před 2 lety

      ... the children were probably so very young when the family "crumbled," so that is why. Very heartbreaking history. ("The places of the unrighteous shall be left to the righteous ones.")

  • @yolandamorante1292
    @yolandamorante1292 Před 2 lety +2

    mis más sinceras felicitaciones por documentar tantos lugares maravillosos perdidos olvidados . es triste ver como se van perdiendo........ y me hace sentir bien que jóvenes admiran y respetan estos lugares .

  • @kathygalloway2990
    @kathygalloway2990 Před 4 lety +2

    WOW, SUCH AN AMAZING HOME SO SAD TO SEE THE DECAYING THANKS FOR SHARING THIS BEAUTY!

  • @callenfive
    @callenfive Před 3 lety

    Portugal has the most beautiful tiles and table ware. In the old parenthood movie, I loved her Portuguese dishes.

  • @gabriella7746
    @gabriella7746 Před 3 lety +1

    Great work like always. One thing I don't understand .Your work are master pisces..I really don't understand how can people don't like them. Regards from Serbia

  • @sallya.2412
    @sallya.2412 Před 4 lety +5

    Maybe some of the sketches the woman did could've been for a pattern in embroidery work? Very big mansion, sad to see it decay. Beautiful views there.

  • @caroldickens3028
    @caroldickens3028 Před 4 lety +3

    Wow ! What an amazing building , it would have been stunning when first built, it's such a shame nobody could look after it 😔. But again you showed us the beauty it did have left ♥️

  • @camillemiller132
    @camillemiller132 Před 4 lety +4

    I’m amazed by the home but more by all the beautiful tiles and the amount of tiles in each room. Those types of tiles would cost a fortune these days.

  • @MusicLover-ui9sm
    @MusicLover-ui9sm Před 4 lety +5

    Love the music you played in this video

  • @sarahfarrell8214
    @sarahfarrell8214 Před 4 lety +3

    Wow, what a great find, so interesting! Than you for bringing such a beautiful home to us. Great exploring! The tile work is beautiful. Love ya!!

  • @sandragerken3170
    @sandragerken3170 Před 2 lety

    The tissue paper with designs looks like embroidery patterns for pillow cases, pillows, dresser scarves, etc. Nice tour❤🇱🇷👍

  • @lindaberg9960
    @lindaberg9960 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you very much! You do a wonderful job of showing us everything. You're easy to listen to, and get as excited about finding things as we do watching with you! Glad you put your gloves on and are careful. Also, appreciate your respect of the property and others' abandoned possessions. Look forward to more of your explores! Thanks so much!

  • @cindybogart6062
    @cindybogart6062 Před 3 lety +2

    What a beautiful place this is. Would have to have seen it in its glory days. It must have been breathtaking.✨

  • @bjrnstadbatservice5165
    @bjrnstadbatservice5165 Před 4 lety +2

    Thankyou so much for your videos. The respect you show, is amasing. Hello from the deep forest east i Norway.

  • @kanamichelle7404
    @kanamichelle7404 Před 3 lety +2

    The tile in the first bathroom was my favorite! Too bad all of the tiles in the home can’t be salvaged to use in other homes. And the ceiling in the Chapel was just stunning!

  • @rachelmacdonald4560
    @rachelmacdonald4560 Před 4 lety +1

    Loving your channel folks ...

  • @cheryllakin6736
    @cheryllakin6736 Před 4 lety +3

    That was a beautiful place, love all the tile.
    The desk with the top that comes down is called a secretary desk.

  • @sandysanders6740
    @sandysanders6740 Před rokem +1

    The chair in a bedroom serves many purposes. Someone can read you a bedtime story or sit and have a conversation. The chair in the room is also a place where you could sit down and put on your shoes in the morning or take them off at night :)
    By the way, my mom was from Lisbon Portugal and what a beautiful country.

  • @annebell7274
    @annebell7274 Před 4 lety +2

    WoW amazing house. I will go straight to the Chapel. That was exquisite. Such a shame that there is a water leak in the ceiling. Other than the water stain the Chapel is near perfect. Such a sin that this was abandoned. Thank you so much for a wonderful tour 🌹💟💟🌹

  • @brendagardner6447
    @brendagardner6447 Před 4 lety +4

    WOW! BEAUTIFUL! THANK U! HAVE A HAPPY Y BLESSED DAY!🦋🌹🐞😀👒

  • @trishrogers7981
    @trishrogers7981 Před 4 měsíci

    Hi Leslie, the bottles with funnels used to be used as fuel for kerosene heaters. You would place upside down into the heater then light, we used to have one too

  • @lapismosi8065
    @lapismosi8065 Před 3 lety +1

    I just discovered your channel, and I love it.❤️❤️ If ever there was a person meant to take us on tours, it was you. 😛Your voice is so beautiful and you are so respectful of the property...💕😜not to mention the camera work is FIRST-RATE, OVER-THE-TOP, EXCELLENT! You guys are a ten PLUS.🎶😍🧡😘🎵

  • @pianorama
    @pianorama Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you. Goes to show all we accumulate, all we acquire, cannot go with us ...when we leave.

  • @lorialderman4518
    @lorialderman4518 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow... what an amazing place.
    I have been watching your channel for a few years now and I just wanted to applaud you guys on the quality of your videos. You have grown and improved so much. Also, loved the intro to this video. Keep up the great work.

  • @DesertUrbexer
    @DesertUrbexer Před 4 lety +4

    What a wonderful explore!!! Never a disappointment here with The Bro's!!! On to the next!!!

  • @kymmartin1171
    @kymmartin1171 Před 4 lety

    I love your videos. I'm from America and I think you are so respectful of the places you visit. Your voice is so easy to listen to also.

  • @marilurocha3906
    @marilurocha3906 Před 4 lety +3

    Linda casa!!! Amei os moveis😍😍 É os azulejos estilo Português😍😍😘😘

  • @nathaliebeaudry5058
    @nathaliebeaudry5058 Před 4 lety

    I was amazed by so many beautiful antiques, wide-eyed, so amazed that I could have swallowed flies !!! Unique furniture, full of beautiful works that will soon be reduced to dust ... what a pity ... At least your presence in this place will keep a short memory. I really appreciated the intro, there was only one Christmas tree missing near the piano ...
    From Quebec (Canada)

  • @lisaendress724
    @lisaendress724 Před 4 lety +3

    I cant believe how untouched abandoned houses are over there!

  • @platnum3219
    @platnum3219 Před 4 lety +3

    Absolutely lovely thank you so much for all your amazing work ❤️❤️💕💗 glad to see you are well

  • @lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x
    @lisa.user-xm7kz2tb6x Před 2 lety

    a phenominal find. best i've ever seen on Yt. Thank you so much, i enjoyed you all.

  • @carmenragsdale1012
    @carmenragsdale1012 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing this video sending love from Orlando Florida USA ❤️

  • @markmurphy8303
    @markmurphy8303 Před 4 lety +2

    Hello guys , fantastic adventure,once a lovely mansion I’m really surprised a lot of the antique furniture is still here, thank you guys very cool explore.

  • @Shreya-hz4pe
    @Shreya-hz4pe Před 4 lety +1

    When you said "Now a days childrens don't host their parents anymore".. That hit hard. I am from India and I didn't know this existed in other countries as well.
    Very great video btw. :)

    • @BrosOfDecay
      @BrosOfDecay  Před 4 lety +2

      Hey Shreya I don't know the situation in India. But where I live in Belgium people just place them in a resting home. It is very sad... Btw love India have traveled there for over a month :) X

    • @Shreya-hz4pe
      @Shreya-hz4pe Před 4 lety +1

      Culturally, In india old age people used stay with their children. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents stay with my parents.
      Btw, try coming and exploring such places in India. It will be fun.

  • @azzamarwan5476
    @azzamarwan5476 Před rokem

    I love your channel so much and I wish that family still living in this beautiful mansion until now and taking care of it.

  • @elizabethsalvage4338
    @elizabethsalvage4338 Před 4 lety +2

    Oh to bring these places back to life...thank you for sharing.

  • @ladypreddymadders
    @ladypreddymadders Před 4 lety +1

    Wow beautiful place Leslie, and i still love the way you describe things, beautiful voice xx

  • @lolo619
    @lolo619 Před 2 lety

    Les thank you for being. a wonderful friend

  • @christianehuber1145
    @christianehuber1145 Před 2 lety +1

    It's a so awesome big building. Very, very beautiful time-capsule! The picture in the wall with the musicians shows Beethoven, Richard Wagner and the third I don't know, perhaps Franz Liszt. Thanks for sharing!

  • @jaxyab
    @jaxyab Před 4 lety +2

    The furniture is so beautiful. Just a really lovely explore. Thank you for helping to get so many of us through those tough days during this virus. I'm hoping to get your "Beautiful" tee very soon. Stay safe!

  • @mariaallon6968
    @mariaallon6968 Před 4 lety +1

    Mooie video Lesley en Jordy. En er mooi muziek bij op de achtergrond. Relax en een schitterend huis. 👍

  • @freyastott4369
    @freyastott4369 Před 4 lety +1

    What an amazing house, thank you guys that was yet another amazing tour of a beautiful but abandoned house, although I love watching your videos I can't help but get a surge of sadness every time, knowing these families lived and loved here, but there was an untimely end to their happiness and this place was left to decay. 😍😢

  • @gaylehall8897
    @gaylehall8897 Před 3 lety +2

    Lesley..Really interesting home..Tell Jordy we would love to see his face too...lol 🥰🥰🥰

    • @donaldmoore9306
      @donaldmoore9306 Před 2 lety

      Lol yeah. How are you doing. Hope you are fine and staying safe out there?

  • @macmac5757
    @macmac5757 Před rokem

    Love your videos. So much respect for the houses and their past. Congratulations.

  • @susiesanchez5956
    @susiesanchez5956 Před 2 lety

    You guys are doing a wonderful job, you are in the process of learning new things .