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  1. Interesting information about the basements and what was located there. I suspect that the basement of Downton Abbey was huge considering the number of servants that worked there. I can only imagine what the attic looked like during that time. It’s small wonder that the upper classes needed so much money and eventually had to allow tradesmen to marry into the first circles so that they could maintain their lifestyles.

  2. Lord, my parents in law lived in a Georgian crescent house in Clifton in Bristol UK. 6 floors! I’m asthmatic and only the first and top floor had one run of stairs, the rest were double, going back on each other. A visit all but killed me. There was a cellar below with a well and storage for wine etc. And the basement above. The house was on a hill so the back entrance was in the basement, for tradesman, the front entrance was on the floor above for family etc. The windows were massive and had shutters and being in a crescent the front was half the width of the back in a fan shape. They were so popular in the Georgian era that they were built at speed and rapidly, not well. There were constant works needed for badly built rooves and subsidence and the original stabling was on another crescent above..fancy houses now. Beautiful, but I wouldn’t live there if you paid me. Ironically the houses built for lower classes were much better built.

  3. I love your research. O course, there were dragons. And, yes, the dragon keepers would build their houses to accommodate the dragon tunnels and easy access to the Blue Order. It would be a virtual highway underground. I can imagine patrols and security would be strict in certain areas. Wow! Look what you have done. LOL! Thanks for sharing, be safe, and healthy.

  4. I’m with you – I really enjoy the research process. I bought the Yorke book when I was doing background research for a stage version of P&P (which got covid-cancelled, sadly). One of the things I enjoy about it is all the diagrams & illustrations Yorke includes. Social history is my favorite kind so I enjoy all these blog posts.

  5. I grew up living in a basement of a Georgian house in Paddinton now renamed Westminster, (during 1939 -1956 ) which had a large copper cauldron in in the scullery. I presume this was servants quarters where all laundry was down. There were only two other rooms besides the scullery and a blocked off staircase leading upstairs. My father although just a renter undertook to remove the base of the cauldron, if I can call that, to install a coal burning range containing an oven and an surface for cooking, which added comfort in the winter. The scullery had the only sink and was therefore our kitchen. Along with a gas stove it served as a way of heating water for our laundry system complete with scrubbing board for my poor mother. we had a WC tucked around corner outside. Saturday night was bath night, so with the curtains drawn we brought in our galvanized tin tub from its place hanging in the back yard, ah such luxury! I left there at 17 to emigrate to Canada. But now I try to imagine how the other four small families that lived in that Georgian fared.

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