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| when Roger Gaskell was older. They all lived in the Hall, many of them in the attics. I remember at Christmas in 1918 and 1919 all the estate staff, with their wives and families, went to the Servants Hall for their Christmas Dinner. They didn't have an ice-house at Pendrell, instead they had a lead-lined cabinet or ice box. The ice was put into the smaller top compartment and the food was stored in the cold cupboard underneath. In the summer it was my father's job to fetch the ice from the abattoir in Wolverhampton, possibly once a week. After the war Mr Gaskell provided my father with his own transport, a motor-bike and side-car and then we used to fetch the ice in this. Sometimes I would come back sitting on top of the sack which covered the block of ice. THE DAIRY On the left at the back of the Hall was the dairy and the larder. This was a room with stone slabs all the way around. The milk was taken into there and poured into shallow, earthenware bowls. The cream was then skimmed off with a shallow perforated ladle and put into big containers. Twice a week it was churned into butter. They had a big old-fashioned churn and it was usually the gard-ener's wife who did the churning. All the employees had their butter from there and their milk. Of course it was skimmed milk as the cream had been removed to make the butter. My father would |
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| Indoor and outdoor servants at Pendrell Hall after 1915 Outdoor servants - top row from left: Tom Bright Jnr, gardener; George Picken, wagonner; Henry Roberts, cowman; Jack Barley, chauffeur, (Mrs Porteous�s father); William Smith, head gardener; Walter Worsket, coachman; Jack Leek, gardener, Tom Bright Snr, gardener; Mr Bean, estate manager. Indoor servants - bottom row from left: 1 & 2 - unknown; Ada Walkington, ladies� maid; Alice Neale, cook; Roger Gaskell�s nanny; Kate Prince (?) parlourmaid; 7 � unknown |
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