{"id":4561,"date":"2022-02-23T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/?p=27023"},"modified":"2022-02-23T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:08:24","slug":"six-of-the-best-museums-of-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/homesantiques\/rss_feed\/six-of-the-best-museums-of-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Six of the best museums of everyday life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rhiannon Batten\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The Worker\u2019s Cottage<\/span><\/h2>\n
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National Trust Images\/James Dob<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Cheshire\u2019s Quarry Bank mill is one of the best-preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784 to spin cotton, rapid growth meant considerable workers\u2019 housing was soon being put up nearby. This included the Oak Cottages of Styal village, a short walk away \u2013 two-up, two-downs dating to the 1820s. Built with outside privies and small kitchen gardens, these were a step up from conditions endured by most city-based mill workers. If they look quaint today, however (No. 13 has been left \u2018untouched\u2019 for visitors to tour), it\u2019s worth remembering that census data shows up to 14 people living in each house, some in the cellars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit The Worker\u2019s Cottage<\/a><\/p>\n

The Tenement House<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Owned by one Agnes Toward between 1911 and 1965, Glasgow\u2019s Tenement House was acquired, with its contents, by the National Trust for Scotland after Agnes\u2019s death. The flat is more than just a window into Toward\u2019s life, however. For the people living in one of Glasgow or Edinburgh\u2019s archetypal late 19th-century flats (this one dates from 1892), it\u2019s a chance to picture their own home as it might have been lived in during the early 20th century, complete with box beds. Agnes worked as a\ntypist for a local shipping firm and kept a shipshape house, with a rosewood and walnut piano, 18th-century grandfather clock and range cooker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit The Tenement House<\/a><\/p>\n

Back To Backs<\/span><\/h2>\n
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National Trust Images\/Paul Harris<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Birmingham\u2019s Back to Backs are a well-preserved example of 19th-century working-class houses built around shared courtyards, with outside privies and wash houses. Once commonplace in Britain\u2019s industrial cities, the cramped quarters and poor sanitation made disease rife, and many were later demolished. These examples were lived in by button-makers, tailors, watch-makers and others running small cottage industries. Scrubbed up for visitors, they look cosy and practical, but the multicultural stories of their inhabitants \u2013 told evocatively via four time periods between 1840 and 1977 \u2013 speak of a grittier reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit Birmingham\u2019s Back to Backs<\/a><\/p>\n

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