LadyArowana
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Wish I could ignore my kitchen for that long http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3817088/Secrets-of-a-lost-Victorian-kitchen.html
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I wasn't aware that Yer Ladyship had ever set foot in Her kitchen.
Isn't that what servants are for?
Isn't that what servants are for?
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:lol: but what an astonishing find! Very jealous!
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The couple now plan to preserve the room. Archie said: "It was left just as it used to be — with even a 19th century cookbook."
I hope they've got deep pockets. If Dahl's shed requires £500k to preserve then that little lot looks expensive!
But it's an interesting example of genuine period living and one, I suspect, that few people would be prepared to live with these days - even the most ardent period property enthusiast.
I hope they've got deep pockets. If Dahl's shed requires £500k to preserve then that little lot looks expensive!
But it's an interesting example of genuine period living and one, I suspect, that few people would be prepared to live with these days - even the most ardent period property enthusiast.
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Penners said:
I'm much more shocked that Her Ladyship was reading The Sun..... hang on a minute, is she really Her Ladyship or is this "her"??? :wink:
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Oh, come along my dear chap. If one is to try and converse with the staff on matters that they halfway understand, one must apprise oneself of their argot.Feltwell said:
Noblesse oblige, and all that.
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Penners said:
Exactly so. My other news sources fail to enlighten me on some of the more salacious details of UK events. Although the appeal for money for the shed restoration did make the Straits Times!
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Feltwell said:
:lol: :lol: :lol: You will have to ask Joce and Nigel ...
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robgil said:
Only if it was new in 1950, and you wouldn't build a new kitchen and then immediately block it off, much as I can understand the sentiment. I believe it says that there was a lot of other junk stored in there, like old horse blankets. So they had probably forgotten exactly what was in there, my guess is that another kitchen was put in somewhere else in the house.
But that simply makes it an old kitchen blocked off in the 50's and not some special doorway into a victorian kitchen as the new paper (if you could call the sun that 
) would lead us to believe. ''Secrets of a ''lost'' victorian kitchen from the 50's'' would have been more accurate or perhaps Secrets of a ''lost'' 1950's kitchen with a few bits left in it from the victorian era''.
Ive just found a ''lost room from the mid 1500's'' in my house , it was blocked off in the 80's. :lol:
) would lead us to believe. ''Secrets of a ''lost'' victorian kitchen from the 50's'' would have been more accurate or perhaps Secrets of a ''lost'' 1950's kitchen with a few bits left in it from the victorian era''.Ive just found a ''lost room from the mid 1500's'' in my house , it was blocked off in the 80's. :lol: