Beginning to prepare Eating Room for the 2014 season at Osterley Park House (image: Laura Brooks)
Over the winter, we have been blogging about ‘putting the house to bed.’ A few weeks ago, the team began to prepare the house for its first day of the new season. In doing this, we were echoing the servants who worked at Osterley all those years ago and whose responsibility it was to get the house ready for the family and their guests, when they came to stay (although the servants then probably wouldn’t have been using a Henry vacuum cleaner to clean the floors).
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