There is a great deal of nostalgia surrounding the traditional notion of domestic service, with the scandals above and below stairs in ... employed as domestic servants in Britain would have ...

A woman has revealed how she walks down the "death stairs" in her 18th-century house, which were originally used by servants. Kim and her husband, Rod, bought Bloomfield Farm in Virginia ...

What was life really like for the servants who worked below stairs in the era of Downton Abbey? Literary dramatist Leslie Goddard takes us “downstairs” to experience life below stairs in the ...

A century ago, 1.5 million British people worked as servants – astonishingly, more than worked in factories or farms. But while servants are often portrayed as characters in period dramas ...

Servants had to use the back stairs and side entrances so that they wouldn't inadvertently come across the people to whom they ministered. The work could be back breaking and was poorly paid ...

These gorgeous stair railing ideas range from traditional ... spindles curve and fade below them in a manner inspired by the servants' stairs in Downton Abbey. One of the inherent sticking points ...

There is a great deal of nostalgia surrounding the traditional notion of domestic service, with the scandals above and below stairs in ... employed as domestic servants in Britain would have ...

There is a great deal of nostalgia surrounding the traditional notion of domestic service, with the scandals above and below stairs in ... employed as domestic servants in Britain would have ...