Studio-Talk
HALL-l’ TH’-WOOD FOLK-MUSEUM, BOLTON : A SITTING-ROOM
drinking Stuart times and the early Hanoverian
period when “ decent people got drunk every
night without criticism.” The collection of quaint
old implements of cookery hanging about the
kitchen fireplace and walls shows how important
a part this art played in the life of the mistress of'
the Hall and her daughters or serving-maids, while
pestles and mortars in beautifully polished wood
call up visions of them crushing spices, pounding
flower petals and sweet-smelling herbs, or grinding
HALL-l’ TIl’-WOOD FOLK-MUSEUM, BOLTON : A SITTING-ROOM
HALL-l’ TH’-WOOD FOLK-MUSEUM, BOLTON : A SITTING-ROOM
drinking Stuart times and the early Hanoverian
period when “ decent people got drunk every
night without criticism.” The collection of quaint
old implements of cookery hanging about the
kitchen fireplace and walls shows how important
a part this art played in the life of the mistress of'
the Hall and her daughters or serving-maids, while
pestles and mortars in beautifully polished wood
call up visions of them crushing spices, pounding
flower petals and sweet-smelling herbs, or grinding
HALL-l’ TIl’-WOOD FOLK-MUSEUM, BOLTON : A SITTING-ROOM