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   Mike Knell (m@blat.at)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 22:39:07 JST Mike Knell

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   @thisismyglasgow My grandmother was sent into service by her father in the 1920s at 14 and her first job as the most junior of the scullery-maids (getting up at 4:30) was not even just to clean and re-set the fires in the living rooms, it was to clear and set the fires in the rooms of the more senior servants so it was warm when *they* got up. Sounded just absolutely miserable, and fortunately she had the common sense to run away after a while and tell her father than no way in hell was she staying there. So she trained as a seamstress instead.

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     This Is My Glasgow (thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 22:39:08 JST This Is My Glasgow

     You only begin to appreciate just how many fireplaces were required to keep old buildings, like Glasgow's Pollok House, warm when you start counting the chimneys. In this case, there's more than thirty. That's a lot of grates to be cleared of the previous day's ashes each morning before the fires could be re-set in time for the family getting up for breakfast.

     #glasgow #architecture #pollokhouse #glasgowbuildings #chimneys

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