Cleaning up after servants’ life of grime

THE servants’ quarters, very much a part of the history of any great house, are always hugely popular with visitors and the National Trust was keen to buy items at Christie’s (19.5/12% buyer's premium) Chirk Castle sale on June 21 which represented life below stairs.

These included the principal contents of the Chirk laundry and the catalogue description alone of a …

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