Some Old Kitchens

One of the best threads here, love these more than any!! Thanks all I like them a lot.

 

oh yes the retro look has been in Vogue for quite a while here now, many people have those ''white goods'' in duck egg blue, creams, etc..

I have a few retro 'modern' pieces, but only as accents..

 

This is a stately home close to where I live, and they have left the kitchens and laundry rooms etc..just as they were a hundred years ago...

 

Notice her shoes. They look 3 sizes too big.

 

This was a typical kitchen in the slum tenements of Glasgow as late as the 50's and 60's...

 

"... kitchen in an 1893 house with original wainscoting and a 1920’s stove. Note the drying rack over the stove controlled by a pulley system and a towel rack behind the stove. ... A hot water tank is behind, connected to the stove to provide hot water for washing and bathing."

 

We had that drying rack in a house we lived in when we were growing up @Nancy Hart , as you say controlled using a pulley system... and that's precisely what we called it.. ''The Pulley''

 

These are pictures I took myself of the Enormous kitchens in the aforesaid Country mansion...

They've kept the Service wing just as it was in the 1800's... HUGE kitchens, Dairy, Laundry room... everything there...


The Huge Black leaded cooking range is about 12 feet long ..and the massive copper pots are so heavy to lift even empty, so goodness knows how those people lifted them centuries ago full of hot food ..


Here's part of the laundry room...with the pulley..which in itself was enormous.. and the wooden drying horse which is as tall as me

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This picture must have been taken during the summer, water glasses and pitcher on top of the stove, woman slicing bread, towels under everything, etc...

 

I was thinking the same thing---zero counter space! On the other hand I've noticed the more counter space you have, the more it tends to get filled up. I suspect that's just me, though.

 

The huge black leaded stove, at the Country House




part of the enormous kitchen

 

I think that is the same the world over!

In many ways, I was much better off in my first tiny apartment with one bowl, one knife, a group of poor friends with a jug of cheap wine, a salad, and a big bowl of spaghetti! Remember spaghetti it was a favorite in the old days before pasta was invented, LOL!

The most important thing was a sink full of hot sudsy water so I could wash and reuse items as I went along.