We took my mum to Tudor House on 30th April 2013, her 92nd birthday. As a child in the 1960s I had been taken there by my parents on many occasions. I particularly loved the attic laid out as a nursery with all the dollies. On this return visit so many years later, we all (me, my husband and my mum) enjoyed it. However, it had lost something. The staff were very helpful, the cafe very welcome and the garden much as I remembered it. However, there was too much audio-visual in evidence and some of the rooms were much too bare. The biggest disappointment of course was that there was no access to the attic (and I am told there is nothing up there anymore anyway). I understand the lack of access is due to health & safety reasons but it would be lovely to see that nursery re-created in one of the other spaces that ARE accessible, especially as some of them are so empty. The one place that DID benefit from a soundtrack was the cellar. The sound of bombs falling all around was very effective and gave me a little understanding of what it had been like for my mum, who of course was in the 1941 blitz of Southampton. It was probably just as well that a 92-year old could not get down to the cellar, as it might have been a little too realistic!