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The Downstairs Cook: April 2014
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Tell Your Mother Holborn's Still There! Tell your mother Holborn's still there! On the left, as the foundlings walk down Lambs Conduit Street from the gatehouse, they pass The Lamb, now a Grade II listed Victorian pub, at number 94. Another Victorian pub, The Pe...
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The Downstairs Cook: Mekons, the Edwardian Era & Today
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Mekons, the Edwardian Era and Today. In the spirit that fuelled the beginning of the punk era in the mid 1970s, long running post-punk band Mekons produced an album in 2011 entitled. Ancient and Modern 1911 - 2011. Was all that really just over a hundred years ago?
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The Downstairs Cook: October 2014
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, October 12, 2014. Ellen: An Act of Bastardy. Shrove Tuesday was a particular source of rowdiness, when a rabble regularly assembled and threw brickbats, potsherds, glass bottles and other dangerous missiles at the doors of the town's inhabitants. Guy Fawkes Night saw similar beh...
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The Downstairs Cook: Charlotte: After the Workhouse
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, January 8, 2017. Charlotte: After the Workhouse. Here she stayed for 12 months, nursing her own Lily Maud and other babies "sent to nurse". And presumably, she was given bed and board for her time spent there, feeding babes round the clock, on demand and as required. Was the crimina...
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The Downstairs Cook: Charlotte & the Workhouse
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Thursday, September 12, 2013. Charlotte and the Workhouse. Being pregnant, with no family in London and George now denying paternity, Charlotte arrived at the door of the Croydon Union Workhouse in late 1881. As related in. Calling: Servant - By whose order admitted: Ebbutt. It must have be...
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The Downstairs Cook: Lily and The Foundling Hospital
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Saturday, October 12, 2013. Lily and The Foundling Hospital. In December 1882, Charlotte Boyt, of The Herne, Beddington Lane, Mitcham petitioned The Foundling Hospital at Corams's Fields for the admission of her infant daughter Lily. After 12 months as wet. Foundling Girls in the Chapel.
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The Downstairs Cook: January 2017
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, January 8, 2017. Charlotte: After the Workhouse. Here she stayed for 12 months, nursing her own Lily Maud and other babies "sent to nurse". And presumably, she was given bed and board for her time spent there, feeding babes round the clock, on demand and as required. Was the crimina...
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The Downstairs Cook: February 2015
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Mekons, the Edwardian Era and Today. In the spirit that fuelled the beginning of the punk era in the mid 1970s, long running post-punk band Mekons produced an album in 2011 entitled. Ancient and Modern 1911 - 2011. Was all that really just over a hundred years ago?
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The Downstairs Cook: Ellen & Her Islington Blacksmith
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Saturday, October 24, 2015. Ellen and Her Islington Blacksmith. In 1864 Ellen Boyt, 26, of Christchurch, Hampshire married John Ward of Islington, London, a blacksmith. He, Ellen and her illegitimate daughter Charlotte set up house in Islington. But John was no longer a blacksmith. He w...
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The Downstairs Cook: September 2013
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A collection of Victoriana, Edwardiana, recipes and historical facts woven around the story of an actual downstairs cook born in London in the 1880s; a wunderkammer of life, curiosities and social history of the time. Thursday, September 12, 2013. Charlotte and the Workhouse. Being pregnant, with no family in London and George now denying paternity, Charlotte arrived at the door of the Croydon Union Workhouse in late 1881. As related in. Calling: Servant - By whose order admitted: Ebbutt. It must have be...