Visitors who make jokes about chandeliers falling down when they are being maintained at National Trust properties a
re being encouraged to pay a “tax” to help with their upkeep.

Such a moment was made famous in the TV comedy Only Fools And Horses when lead characters Del Boy and his brother Rodney stand on ladders waiting to catch a chandelier in a sheet so they can clean it.

In the classic scene in a hallway, Del Boy says: “Brace yourself Rodney, brace yourself”, as the pair…