Friday 27 March 2009

Friday.


Pleasantly old fashioned kitchen seen recently.

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10 comments:

Crowbard said...

Is this one of Annie's dolls'-house kitchens or are they cart-wheel sized chargers on the wall?
It is very realistic but there is something ever so slightly amiss with the perspective and proportion I ween!

Unknown said...

No. But you're in the right area. It's the inside of an English version of a Nuremberg kitchen I was asked to tidy up. The kitchen is eleven inches high and seventeen inches wide. Re pewter chargers, the largest one I ever had was, I think, 26 inches in diameter, which would be ,proportionately, rather larger than the biggest one illustrated; and there is a bigger one than that in the Fitzwilliam collection (what you might call a slightly larger charger). Cheers, Mike.

Crowbard said...

The fire-back in the model kitchen puts me in mind of 4, Hurst's Row, Lakesend. It's the somewhat undulating appearance that does it! I recall there was a hob-hearth in the living-room but was there not also one in the kitchen which was never lit because of a breach in the chimney brickwork?

Crowbard said...

As I recall the Lakesend kitchen was about the same size as your Neuremburg model kitchen too!

V-word is 'pregi' - and I'm not sure if I should use it! - but at my age I think it is an unlikely omen. Cause for celibation either way?

Unknown said...

Hi Carl. I think the front parlour in the Row had a hob fireplace with a small, sqare, iron oven to the left of it, about the size of an old fashioned biscuit box. The top of this oven could be used as a hob or hot-plate., and there was an iron trivet that was hung on the fire bars to boil a kettle, or keep a saucepan hot. I can't remember if there was a fire place in the kitchen, but if there was it was never used, so you may be right. It's sixty years this summer since we left there. Great Uncle Walter brought his horse and wagon along to move us.
Memory Lane, what? Cheers, Mike.

Crowbard said...

Yeah, wasn't Gurney Wakefield helping out in his own inimitable way? Pop Trower had carefully loaded the steel cross-straps of the two beds on different sides of the flat trailer, and Gurney got a rocket for mixing them up together! I recall spending most of the journey between the reins on G-U Walter's left knee. It seemed most surprising to see the wardrobe being lowered out from the front bedroom window. I used to really like the lilies either side of the front door there - and Pop's asparagus mound. I hadn't realised how short a time we spent there - it seemed at least a year. We were there before Shrove Tuesday 1949 Because I went for a walk along the A1101 towards Welney and got back late to be told I'd missed my tea and the pancakes. I'd got as far as Winstanley House, Les & Emily Biggs' place before I turned back.

Unknown said...

Hi Carl. I think I wrong about the date we left the Row. I think it's likelier to have been in the spring of 1950. If Gurney Wakefield helped us he couldn't have been very old - perhaps ten (?). But it's perfectly possible that Uncle Walter brought him along - he was Aunt Daisy's nephew.Your memory is clearer than mine about these things I think.

Crowbard said...

Summer 1950 makes more sense to my idea of the time we were there. I thought I was 4 and a big-bit when I missed the pancakes! And I had my 5th Birthday at The Row because Aunt Ivy bought me a cake in the shape of a number 5 - was that when Babs and her friend Lily came and played lions & tigers with us near the elder tree? I had my 4th Birthday at The Row as well, Nana Trower made some cornflake & treacle cakes because sugar was still rationed. Just don't ask me what I was doing an hour ago - I've not much close-up recall at all!

Happy days. Even the v-word says gaillies.

Unknown said...

I should think a gaillie is a gaelic speaking gun bearer ????

Unknown said...

Or Ghillie.