Re: Lanehead


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Posted by John Wilson on March 15, 2003 at 04:49:18 from 203.96.58.8 user hugo.

In Reply to: Re: DOGS' Home, posted by Dvaid Bamford on March 14, 2003 at 21:16:27:

Taqui Altounyan describes Lanehead in chapter 14 of "In Aleppo Once".

There was one servant, Ada the cook, who lived three miles away at Tilberthwaite. They clean, order food, wash-up and make beds themselves. The only drinking-water is from a pump in the scullery. The dining-room which was originally the kitchen had a big black range but Ada had her own little black stove in the kitchen.

There is a Lamp Room on the ground floor where oil lamps and candlesticks were brought down from the bedrooms for cleaning. It also had the telephone, old copies of Punch, and was used for storage as a junk room. Lanehead was loaned rent-free to the Collingwoods who never had much money; later her father purchased it for £500.

Taqui mentions Aunt Genia, and Uncle Arthur who looked Oriental or like a Chinaman when he cultivated a long, thin, droopy Chinese moustache.



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