The results are in and Melanie Backe-Hansen, Chesterton Humberts’ own in-house historian has won PrimeLocation.com’s Best Newcomer award for her The House Historian blog on the company’s website.
Melanie, whose blog was also a runner up for the Best Blog and User’s Favourite Blog awards, wins Ł150 worth of Habitat vouchers.
It’s wonderfully ironic that Chesterton Humberts’ in-house historian is proving so successful in the very contemporary world of social media. Melanie’s online popularity has led to her writing regular blog posts on the Country Life website as well as having her own blog on the Chesterton Humberts website.
- St Benedicts Priory, Deeping St James, Cambridgeshire, a grand 17th century home built on the site of a 12th century priory
- No. 1 Drayton Gardens, London, a London town house built in 1845-6 and the home of author and artist Mervyn Peake from 1960-1968
- Holly Lodge, St Margaret’s at Cliffe, Kent, a 17th century house in this seaside village with a wide range of interesting owners
Melanie’s blog is part of the company’s expanding social media effort that includes daily ‘tweets’ by numerous staff members to a growing list of followers. A new corporate blog will be launching soon.
For a taste of why Backe-Hansen’s blog on the Country Life website - and now on the Chesterton Humberts website - gets over 600 hits a day, have a read at countrylife or http://property-blog.chestertonhumberts.com/ . You can follow her Twitter updates at http://twitter.com/HouseHistorian
Chesterton Humberts’ own history dates back to 1805, when it was established by Charles Chesterton. In 2009, Chesterton joined forces with another historic agent, Humberts, established in 1842, to create Chesterton Humberts.
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