Bright copper kettles to chrome goosenecks

Have you ever visited an Australian National Trust property? One that perhaps still has an extant kitchen from the Victorian era or perhaps even the Old Colonial period? Somewhere like Como House (built in 1847) or Ripponlea (1868) if you’re in Melbourne. Or even the Commandant’s house at Port Arthur in Tasmania, which was originally built in 1833, but evolved and grew from a simple four-room cottage to a much larger residence overseeing the whole settlement with a then brand new kitchen by 1837.

If you have visited any of these kitchens and been fascinated by them,