Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Strokestown House Part Two

This is the living room on the main floor.  It was just to the right of the entryway as you are walking in.  In later years, when their health was failing, this was where Olive and Wilfrid lived and slept.



These two doors are on either side of the fireplace.  The door above is actually one used to enter and leave.  The door below is fake, and put in to make the room uniform.  (Which is why a chair sits there...)







Below is the dining room.  It is on the other side of the entryway, so to the left as you walk into the house.



The picture is identified as George Sandford titled 3rd Baron Mount Sandford.  Apparently an uncle to the 2nd Baron, and thus a great-uncle of Olive's grandfather, Henry Sandford Pakenham.  The title and Barony died with George in 1846.


Elizabeth Pakenham was the mother of Henry Standford Pakenham, making her Olive's great-grandmother.  Her brother was the 2nd Baron Mount Sandford, and when he was killed in a brawl in Windsor at the age of 23, without heirs, the title went to George, her uncle.


The chest is an ice chest - a cooler, though not one you would want to take to the beach!


They had a telephone for communication between the kitchen and the main house!


The kitchen was amazing.  It was very large - larger than the one in Downton Abbey according to our tour guide!  Apparently, when Olive and Wilfrid were still living there, the kitchen had been renovated and a whole new set of walls had been set up inside this kitchen and it was modernized.  When the house changed hands and they began renovation work, they tor down the inner walls and found the original kitchen completely intact!




This upper balcony is where the lady of the house could come and oversee the activities in the kitchen without having to be on the same level as the servants.



The tour guide also assured us the stove and ovens still functioned!


The next three shots are pictures of Olive.  The fourth is Olive and Wilfrid.







This last one is a picture of Olive's first husband.

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