The C19th Tansey Kitchen in Snitterfield

The Tansey family kitchen at Snitterfield, Warwickshire, late C19th
This is the kitchen of Tom Tansey's home in Snitterfield in the late C19th.
Tom  (1845 - 1907) used to sit in his favourite chair by the fire, with a stumpy old clay pipe in his mouth (which the family called his nose warmer), and the cat "Moses" on his knee.
There was also a big brick oven in the wash-house, like a baker's oven.
It was filled with wood and when the fire had burned to glowing ashes it was raked out and the oven would be ready for the dinner.  A wire triangle in the baking tin held the meat and a Yorkshire pudding underneath.  The neighbours would
bring their dinners to be baked and were charged a penny to help pay for the wood - they would bake pies and tarts for the week.
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