the servants' hall doubles as the place servants may spend their leisure hours and serves as both sitting room and dining room. Meals in the servants' hall...
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and those of the visitors. The hall boy also waited on more senior servants when they took their meals in the servants hall. He slept on a fold-down bed...
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small windows of the servants’ bedrooms. These rooms which were entirely in main block of the house, and constituted distinct servants' quarters, were to...
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Canons Ashby House (section Servants' hall)
space of the Great Hall. When Edward Dryden created his new dining room in 1710, this room was repurposed as a dining space for servants. Most notable are...
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parlours, withdrawing rooms, and later for servants who finally achieved their own servants hall to eat in and servants’ bedrooms in attics or basements). By...
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employer, while she was addressed as "Miss" by junior servants or when visiting another servants' hall. A lady's maid's specific duties included helping her...
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Civil service (redirect from Civil servants)
public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant is a public servant but a public servant is not necessarily a civil servant. The...
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compensation for goods valued at £845, or the equivalent of what 40 slaves or servants would produce in a year, which led to litigation with fellow burgess William...
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grisailles by Van Dyck, and Breaking Cover by John Wootton. Once a servants' hall, located next to the kitchen, the armoury is now home to what many experts...
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Domestic worker (redirect from Servants)
serious abuses, including slavery. Servant is an older English word for "domestic worker", though not all servants worked inside the home. Domestic service...
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Abbey. The female servants report to her. Though unmarried, she is referred to as Mrs Hughes according to traditional titles for servants during the time...
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Housekeeper (domestic worker) (redirect from Housekeeper (servant))
care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall. Unlike most other servants, she was addressed as mistress or missus regardless of...
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1809, while the bedroom became a general-use servants' room. All rooms east of the oval Servant's Hall were turned into staff bedrooms by 1825 (with...
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junior kitchen-maid, the scullery maid did not eat at the communal servants' dining hall table, but in the kitchen in order to keep an eye on the food that...
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Llanelly House (section Servants' hall and cellar)
the ground floor rooms, the former Sir Thomas Stepney's Study, the Great Hall and the two rooms that occupy the south-western range of the house. The re-opening...
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staff flats created to replace the small staff bedrooms and communal servants' hall. Including those in the staff flats, 17 bathrooms were added to the...
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4in. with Lavatory adjoining; also Servants' Hall about 27ft. 7in. by 22ft. 10in. ; Housekeeper's Room, Servants' Sitting Room, Butler's Pantry with...
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great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained...
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offer "enclosed" rather than "open" lanais, sometimes meaning a large dining hall with a 'wall' of sliding glass doors. On The Golden Girls, the outdoor space...
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is quite possible that the support personnel were simply grooms and servants. Hall, Joshua R.; Rawlings, Louis; Lee, Geoff (2023-03-24). Unit Cohesion...
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butterfly wings, incorporated a dining room, billiard room, kitchen and servants hall. To the east and west were two circular structures, the ante-room and...
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Kitchen with two pantries off it, Scullery, Knife and Boot Cleaning room, Servants' hall, Gunroom, Lavatory; and two rooms, which were used as Estate offices...
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Between maid (redirect from Hall girl)
scrubbers, oven minders, etc.). The term hall girl came from her chief duty, which was waitressing in the servants' hall. The term between maid came from the...
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Cassell. ISBN 0-304-35422-8. Evangeline Holland (March 2012). "Domestic Servants in Edwardian England". Retrieved 2013-01-30. Bricks & Brass. "Staff Roles"...
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Bagot [the butler]—he has a Partiality for Them—and the others to the servants' hall." In 'Rebecca' the narrator "steals" six Bath Olivers from the dining...
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In the basement there are a kitchen and a bakehouse, as well as the servants' hall and dairy, which are at ground level at the back of the house due to...
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National Trust Museum of Childhood is housed in the 19th-century servants' wing of Sudbury Hall. In 1086, following the Norman Conquest, the manor of Sudbury...
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Thomas Hall, born Thomasine Hall, was an English intersex person and servant in colonial Virginia whose wearing of female attire and, on subsequent investigation...
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have been used by both the owners and their servants. The Rustic contained the wine cellars, Servants' Hall, estate offices, and secondary reception rooms...
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the ground floor was the servants' area. Clockwise from the north, this consisted of the laundry and storage closets, servants' entrance, kitchen, pantry...
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