Dining Room, 17th Century
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Dining Room, 17th Century
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This room represents the private dining room in the home of a prosperous family in the late seventeenth century.
The family no longer ate with the servants in a communal hall as they had done in the mediaeval house. The development of the brick chimney, which moved the fireplace to the side of the room, away from the centre, allowed houses to be split into different levels and smaller more private rooms.
The beams, panelling and furniture are all made of oak. When new this room appeared a lot brighter, as the wood has darkened considerably with age. The furniture is decoratively carved and two pieces are even dated: the cradle is marked ‘1697’ and the large oak cupboard ‘1698’. Such cupboards were known in parts of Yorkshire as ‘Bride Wains’ as they were traditionally taken to a bridge’s new home on a wagon.
[York Castle Museum]
Founded in 1938, York Castle Museum is housed in buildings that used to form the prisons.
The prison buildings were built throughout the c18th – the county jail between 1701-05 by William Wakefield, the Assize Courts between 1773-77 and Female Prison between 1780-83, both by John Carr (1723–1807). By the c19th these buildings were deemed unsuitable and a new prison, in a Tudor Gothic style, was designed by Peter F Robinson (1776–1858) and George Townsend Andrews (1804–55). York Prison was closed in 1929 and demolished in 1935, leaving behind Clifford’s Tower and the c18th buildings which were then repurposed as the museum by Dr John Lamplugh Kirk (1869-1940).
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Feast
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A little snippet of my Thanksgiving 2014.
Happy Quarter Century Birthday, Kuya.
A few nice family meals images I found:
Happy Quarter Century Birthday, Kuya.
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Dim Sum
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only white people in the place
