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My wife was fond of rings.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Jewellery (selective colour) this week.
Looking Close.... On Friday Challage Toiletries.
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A small plastic boat that came out of a cereal packet (Kellogs in New Zealand??) in the 1960s. Shot for this week's Looking Close On Friday's challeng - boats.
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20250703_5066_R62-100 Pink Hollyhock
It is middle of winter and not many flowers around, apart from some tatty white roses and two or three hollyhock flowers.
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The Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Bathroom decor as today's topic.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Different shades of green this week.
Paint I used for kitchen drawers. And well - being an artist it allows me to hide behind that and be messy... to a point.
The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued on 25 June 1867 to Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio, who is regarded as the inventor
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Spirals this week.
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday” on the 19th of February is “my name is”, and it must be a black and white image. This made me think. When I heard the theme, I wrote my name out cursive script as I usually do. I imagined my surname, Raaen, to be like a long curling ribbon, blowing in the breeze like the tail of a kite. I decided to combine this idea with my love of illustration and drawing, including silhouettes, which I have always loved ever since I was a child looking at my faerie tale books of Arthur Rackham. I came up with this silhouette illustration of my name on a windy day. It is surrounded by the tools I used to create it: an HB grey lead pencil, an eraser, a pencil sharpener and a black felt tip pen. I do hope that you like my creative choice of the theme.
Two bottles of Banks's Bitter. It's good beer and only 89 pence for a 500ml bottle – which works out at just on a pound a pint 😀
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Bottles this week.
Wickham Place is the London home of Lord and Lady Southgate, their children and staff. Located in fashionable Belgravia it is a fine Georgian terrace house.
Today we are below stairs in the Wickham Place kitchen. The Wickham Place kitchens are situated on the ground floor of Wickham Place, adjoining the Butler’s Pantry. It is dominated by big black leaded range, and next to it stands a heavy dark wood dresser that has been there for as long as anyone can remember. In the middle of the kitchen stands Cook’s preserve, the pine deal table on which she does most of her preparation for both the meals served to the family upstairs and those for the downstairs staff. And here we are before the range at the pine deal table where Mrs. Bradley the Cook is going to give her scullery maid another cooking lesson by having her prepare vegetable consommé for the second course for the upstairs dinner this evening.
“Agnes. Agnes.”
“Yes, Mrs. Bradley?” Agnes scurries over from the sink.
“I think you’ve earned the right for another cooking lesson.”
“Oh! Oh really Mrs. Bradley! Your famous soufflé?”
“Heavens girl!” the older woman cries, throwing her careworn hands in the air. “Do you really think me a loon? I’ve told you before. You need to learn the basics of plain cooking before I can teach you anything fancy. And a clear consommé of vegetables will be fancy enough for you.”
“That sounds very fancy Mrs. Bradley.”
“That’s because them who eat upstairs,” she raises her eyes to the ceiling. “Like their fancy names for their finely cut vegetable soup.”
“Vegetable soup, Mrs. Bradley?” Agnes’ shoulders slump.
“Now! Now! Buck up my girl!” the Cook says as she steps towards her enormous range to stir a pot over the flame with her wooden spoon. “Don’t think of it as vegetable soup. Think of it as,” She flourishes her spoon through the air. “Consommé.”
Agnes goes to the pine deal dresser on the left hand side of the range an takes out the big copper stock pot and under Mrs. Bradley’s instruction, fetches carrots, parsnips, potatoes, onions, leek, a clove of garlic and thinking it might also go in, a radish.
“Did I say a radish, girl?”
“No Mrs. Bradley.”
“No radish in vegetable consommé, Agnes.”
“But it’s a vegetable, Mrs. Bradley.”
“So’s an artichoke, but you aren’t putting that into it either girl!”
“No Mrs. Bradley.” Agnes says with an apologetic tone.
“Now, get chopping girl! Small pieces mind. We don’t want upstairs choking on big chunks of potato, now do we?”
“No, Mrs. Bradley.”
The theme for the 11th of September “Looking Close… on Friday” is “vegetables”. This tableaux is made up of part of my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection. Some pieces come from my own childhood like the ladderback chair and the teapot on the dresser in the background. Other items I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
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All the vegetables and garlic clove seen on Cook’s deal table are artisan miniatures from a specialist stockist of food stuffs from Kettering in England, as are the onions hanging to the right of the range. He has a dizzying array of meals which is always growing, and all are made entirely or put together by hand, so each item is individual.
The kitchen knife with its inlaid handle and sharpened blade comes from English miniatures specialist Doreen Jeffries Small Wonders Miniature store.
The copper stock pot, the copper pan and the pots on the range in the background are all made of real copper and come from various miniature stockists in England and America.
In front of stock pot containing carrots and parsnips is one of Cook’s Cornishware white and blue striped bowls. One of her Cornishware cannisters stands to the left of the pot. Cornishware is a striped kitchenware brand trademarked to and manufactured by T.G. Green & Co Ltd. Originally introduced in the 1920s and manufactured in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, it was a huge success for the company and in the succeeding 30 years it was exported around the world. The company ceased production in June 2007 when the factory closed under the ownership of parent company, The Tableshop Group. The range was revived in 2009 after T.G. Green was bought by a trio of British investors.
To the right of the stock pot and Cornishware bowl stands a silver Art Nouveau cup which is a dolls’ house miniature from Germany, made in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. It is a beautiful work of art as a stand alone item and is remarkably heavy.
The jars of herbs are also 1:12 miniatures, made of real glass with real cork stoppers in them.
The large kitchen range in the background is a 1:12 miniature replica of the coal fed Phoenix Kitchen Range. A mid-Victorian model, it has hinged opening doors, hanging bars above the stove and a little bass hot water tap (used in the days before plumbed hot water).
What are the markings on the bottom of glass?
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My wife made this little card for me more than twenty years ago when she went away for a few days – yes, I miss you too Valerie.
The Looking close … on Friday group has chosen Words of Love this week.
February Alphabet Fun group's eleventh picture of the month comes to you by courtesy of the letter K for "Keepsake".
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This is a vintage pitcher that is over 50 years old. I have the matching vase and pitcher. I think my Mom also had a square candy dish but that is no longer around.
20260101_4895_R62-100 Just one Drop
Shown in the drop is my garden shed (centre) and temporary fencing for four tomato plants.
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20260409_9360_R62-100 10:55am
This wristwatch I got from the company I worked for, for thirty years service (1973-2003). Six years later (2009) they made me redundant!
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Wickham Place is the London home of Lord and Lady Southgate, their children and staff. Located in fashionable Belgravia it is a fine Georgian terrace house.
Today we are below stairs in the Wickham Place kitchen. At the sink, the scullery maid Agnes scrubs the copper pots used for the preparation of upstairs luncheon with a mixture of sand and soap. Mrs. Bradley, known by most downstairs staff as Cook, is occasionally filled with a momentarily maternal instinct for her poor, bedraggled scullery maid. Watching the poor girl with her brown curls coming loose from beneath her cap, huffing and puffing away as she scrubs, creates such a burst of emotion within her breast.
“Agnes. Agnes.”
“Yes Mrs. Bradley.”
“I think you’ve earned the right for a quick cooking lesson.”
“Oh! Oh really Mrs. Bradley!”
“Yes Agnes. Now, wash and dry your hands with some of that Sunlight. Make sure you scrub under your nails, girl! And then come and join me at the table. Clean hands are essential for a good cook, and we all know that cleanliness is next to godliness!”
Cook takes out some butter, milk and a bowl of eggs from the food safe. Going to her big heavy dark wood dresser she withdraws her Cornishware canister of sugar, some flour nutmeg and salt. She also brings over a fluted flan.
“Cor Mrs. Bradley! Are you going to show me how to make your famous soufflé?”
“Do you take me for fool Agnes?” She looks incredulously at her scullery maid, who sighs and lowers her shoulders at the rebuke. “You need to learn the basics of plain cooking girl, before I can teach you anything fancy. No! We’re going to make a good, plain, custard tart for Nanny and the children. I’m going to make the pastry, and you can make the custard. Now, do you think you can you break three eggs into that bowl there in front of you?”
“Oh yes Mrs. Bradley!”
Moments later Agnes is happily and purposefully breaking eggs against the edge of the bowl. Suddenly there is a crack and a plop. Cook looks up from making pastry to see that Agnes has accidently dropped an egg onto the deal tabletop where it has cracked open, the white oozing across the table’s surface. Agnes looks anxiously at Cook and before the older woman can speak, the poor scullery maid starts to cry.
“Oh heavens Agnes!” Cook exclaims, dusting off her floured hands on her apron.
“Sorry Mrs. Bradly,” Agnes sobs.
“Now girl! There’s no need for tears! No use crying over spilt milk, or a broken egg for that matter.” She smiles reassuring across at Agnes. “If I cried every time I dropped an egg, why, the road outside would be running with my tears!”
“It would, Mrs. Bradley?”
“Yes, girl! Now quick! Go fetch a cloth and clean that up, and then keep going.”
The Wickham Place kitchens are situated on the ground floor of Wickham Place, adjoining the Butler’s Pantry. It is dominated by big black leaded range, and next to it stands a heavy dark wood dresser that has been there for as long as anyone can remember. There is a white enamelled sink to one side with deep cupboards to house the necessary cleaning agents the scullery maid needs to keep the kitchen clean for the cook. In the middle of the kitchen stands Cook’s preserve, the pine deal table on which she does most of her preparation for both the meals served to the family upstairs and those for the downstairs staff.
The theme for the 14th of August “Looking Close… on Friday” is “eggs”. This tableaux is made up of part of my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection. Some pieces come from my own childhood like the ladderback chair and the milk jug. Other items I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
Fun things to look for in this tableaux include:
The eggs, including the broken egg are all 1:12 artisan miniatures with amazing attention to detail.
On Cook’s deal table is a Cornishware white and blue striped bowl which holds the eggs and also one of her Cornishware cannisters. Cornishware is a striped kitchenware brand trademarked to and manufactured by T.G. Green & Co Ltd. Originally introduced in the 1920s and manufactured in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, it was a huge success for the company and in the succeeding 30 years it was exported around the world. The company ceased production in June 2007 when the factory closed under the ownership of parent company, The Tableshop Group. The range was revived in 2009 after T.G. Green was bought by a trio of British investors.
Next to the Cornishware cannister stands a miniature Blue Calico milk jug. Traditional dark blue Burleigh Calico made in Staffordshire, England by Burgess & Leigh since 1851. It was inspired by Nineteenth Century indigo fabrics. Blue Calico is still made today, and still uses the traditional print transfer process, which makes each piece unique.
On the other side of the Cornishware cannister stands a bag of Dry Fork Four. The Dry Fork Milling Company was based in Dry Fork Virginia. They were well known for producing cornmeal. They were still producing cornmeal and flour into the 1950s. Today, part of the old mill buildings are used as a reception centre.
The sink in the background is littered with interesting items. On the left stands an old fashioned draining board which could be removed so that the space could then be used for other purposes. It is stacked with copper pots and a silver metal muffin tray. Near the taps is a box of Sunlight soap and a can of Vim, both cleaning essentials in any Edwardian household. Vim scouring powder was created by William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme) and introduced to the market in 1904. It was produced at Port Sunlight in Wirrel, Merseyside, a model village built by Lever Brothers for the workers of their factories which produced the popular soap brands Lux, Lifebuoy and Sunlight. Sunlight Soap was first introduced in 1884.
To the left of the sink is the food safe with a birchwood broom leaning against it. In the days before refrigeration, or when refrigeration was expensive, perishable foods such as meat, butter, milk and eggs were kept in a food safe. Winter was easier than summer to keep food fresh and butter coolers and shallow bowls of cold water were early ways to keep things like milk and butter cool. A food safe was a wooden cupboard with doors and sides open to the air apart from a covering of fine galvanized wire mesh. This allowed the air to circulate while keeping insects out. There was usually an upper and a lower compartment, normally lined with what was known as American cloth, a fabric with a glazed or varnished wipe-clean surface. Refrigerators, like washing machines were American inventions and were not commonplace in even wealthy upper-class households until well after the Second World War.
My husbands maternal grandfather was a conductor on the buses in Glasgow in the 1950s - previously on the trams - this was his badge. Made by Metrovick Traffolyte of Manchester.
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20250721_5211_R62-100 All the Kings Horses...
Actually a model horse and carriage set from when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. The first four of eight horses.
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Wickham Place is the London home of Lord and Lady Southgate, their children and staff. Located in fashionable Belgravia it is a fine Georgian terrace house.
Today we are below stairs in the Butler’s Pantry. Lord Southgate is hosting a small dinner for some of the members from the House of Lords this evening: influential men whom he hopes to curry favour with in order to pass a private member’s bill regarding the city’s parks and gardens. This means extra work for Withers the Butler. Whilst Cook enjoys herself as she prepares a fine repast for the gentlemen in the adjoining kitchen, Withers busies himself with one of his most hated jobs: cleaning the silver, which is in need of a good polish. Having selected the wine for the dinner and pulled out Lady Southgate’s modish new tea service for an expected afternoon caller, he can now set about polishing the silver. He has laid out the green baize, fetched his cleaning cloths and withdrawn the container of Silvo Silver Cleaning Paste from beneath the Butler’s sink.
The theme for the 17th of April “Looking Close… on Friday” is “Candle Holder”, and the four examples of candle holders sitting on the table waiting to be polished seemed the perfect choice for the theme. The three prong candelabra is an artisan piece of sterling silver made in Berlin and is actually only 3 centimetres in height and 3 centimetres in width. The two Victorian candlesticks are also artisan pieces of sterling silver made in England and are only 2 ½ centimetres in height and ½ a centimetre in width at the base. The avant-garde Art Nouveau candlestick in the form of a woman with foliate decoration is also an artisan piece of sterling silver made in America and is 3 centimetres in height and ½ a centimetre in width at the base. These are part of my 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures collection. Some pieces come from my own childhood including the pair of silver Victorian candlesticks and the 1:12 wax candles in the foreground, which I was given as part of my tenth birthday present. The other two candle holders I acquired as an adult through specialist online dealers and artists who specialise in 1:12 miniatures.
The Butler’s Pantry is situated on the ground floor of Wickham Place, adjunct to the magnificent formal dining room and adjoining the Wickham Place kitchens. The Butler’s Pantry is the preserve of Withers as Butler to Lord and Lady Southgate, and it is well appointed. It has a white enamelled Butler’s sink and deep cupboards to house the necessary glassware and china such a fine house requires. You can just see some of the gilt white Paragon dinner service in the cupboards to the right, and some of Lady Southgate’s new Royal Doulton tea service on the right of the Butler’s sink. On the left of the Butler’s sink stand several bottles of wine: a German Moselle, a French Burgundy and a French champagne chosen by Withers from Lord Southgate’s cellar. The silver on the table consists of a Georgian and an Edwardian lidded serving dish, a Georgian tea caddy, an Edwardian sugar caster, mustard pot and pepper pot (part of a larger cruet set) two Victorian single candlesticks, a three prong Edwardian candelabra and a very avant-garde Art Nouveau candlestick in the form of a woman with foliate decoration. Once shone to a gleam with the aide of Silvo Silver Cleaning Paste and his blue silver cleaning cloths, Withers can replace the spent candles with fresh Price’s Carriage Candles from the box. The gold plate and the silver, both in use and on display in the house, would have been fetched by Withers from Wickham Place’s strong room.
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The silver on the table includes a Georgian and an Edwardian lidded serving dish, a Georgian tea caddy, an Edwardian sugar caster, mustard pot and pepper pot (part of a larger cruet set) two Victorian single candlesticks, a three prong Edwardian candelabra and a very avant-garde Art Nouveau candlestick in the form of a woman with foliate decoration. All the pieces are sterling silver miniatures and are copies of genuine articles. All are made by artists in England except the three prong candelabra and the sugar castor which are German and the Art Nouveau candlestick in the form of a woman with foliate decoration who is American made. The sugar castor of 1 ½ centimetres in height and half a centimetre in diameter in the foreground with its holes in its finial actually comes apart like its life size equivalent. The finial unscrews from the body so it can be filled. I am told that icing sugar can pass through the holes in the finial, but I have chosen not to try this party trick myself. A sugar castor was used in Edwardian times to shake sugar onto fruits and desserts.
The box of Price’s Carriage Candles contains twelve artisan made wax candles like the two in front of the box. The design of the box is Victorian. Price’s was established in 1830 and still exists today. They received the Royal Warrant to Queen Victoria after making Sherwood candles for her wedding. By 1900 they were the largest manufacturer of candles in the world, producing 130 differently named and specified sizes of candles. They supplied candles for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Phillip Mountbatten in 1947 and received the Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II after supplying candles for her coronation in 1953.
The green baize cloth on the table is actually part of a green baize cleaning cloth from my linen cupboard, and the two sliver cleaning rags are cut from one of my own old Goddard silver cleaning cloths. The Silvo Silver Polish tub was made by me, and the label is an Edwardian design. Silvo was a British silver cleaning product introduced to market in 1905 by Reckitt and Sons, who also produced Brasso. Like Price’s Candles, Silvo also has a Royal Warrant.
The dresser on the far right of the picture contains a gilt white china dinner service for eight. On display you can see some plates, a coffee pot and a gravy boat.
The Butler’s sink is littered with interesting items. On the far left is a sterling silver biscuit barrel based on a Victorian design. There are also three bottles of wine: a German Moselle, a French Burgundy and a French champagne. There is also the sucrier (lidded sugar bowl) which is part of a set which also appears to the right of the sink. That set is hand painted and gilded and is based on a Royal Doulton design from the Edwardian era. Near the taps is a box of Sunglight soap and a jar of Vim, both cleaning essentials in any Edwardian household. Vim scouring powder was created by William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme) and introduced to the market in 1904. It was produced at Port Sunlight in Wirrel, Merseyside, a model village built by Lever Brothers for the workers of their factories which produced the popular soap brands Lux, Lifebuoy and Sunlight. Sunlight Soap was first introduced in 1884.