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Upstairs DOWNSTAIRS

What would life have been like if you were employed as a cook-housekeeper or a housemaid and spider brusher in a grand country house, and how different would that existence have been from that of the wife or daughter of its owner? Erddig, the seat of the Yorke family for nearly 250 years, answers these questions, reaching back in time to offer such an immersive sense of life upstairs and downstairs through the centuries, that it’s

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