Writing yesterday about that House that I visited the other evening set me thinking - all the Stately Homes and Houses that one visits are all from many centuries past. We enjoy looking at the items they used to use and the way they used to live. What a hard life those working “below stairs” would have had, it makes me appreciate the life style I`ve got today. (No, I`m not a rich person with servants!!) In particular I like looking at the kitchens, seeing all the gleaming copper pots and moulds on shelves, and the utensils they used, and the dining rooms seeing all the tables laid out with beautiful crockery, glassware and cutlery. It all tells of a completely different way of life.
But, what will people in the future look back at? –
will there be Houses and homes of the 1940`s, 50`s, 60`s…. and so on, complete and set out in how they were when they were lived in, for people to walk round in the way we do in these, or will all of that be lost? Surely it`s part of our history and heritage that there should be some preserved in that way, so that people in the future can look back and see the lifestyle of their ancestors and compare them to the items and home they have, and see the progress. That`s ofcourse assuming things continue to progress. What will the homes of 50 or 100 years time be like, what will they have in the way of gadgets and furnishings???
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There is very little preserved of what it was like for the poor in bygone days. We see the stately homes and the servants quarters but nothing of the hovels.
I doubt the high rises of the inner cities inthe 60s will be presevered-or the brookside type estates of quickly built homes for first time owners, other than in photographs, and drawings and as captured in soaps and tv sketches.
What will survive is what has survied already - rows of country cottages now converted into one large home, homes that were built to last, and which has been lovingly maintained.
Yes, that is true.
There are just a few places where old dwellings have been incorporated into museums and preserved in that way. (See my entry for 12th. March)
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