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Bread Ovens at the Little Castle, Bolsover: A fire would be made within each oven and then removed once the oven was hot enough. The oven could then be used for baking for several hours. These ovens like those in most other large houses were located in a separate room from the kitchen.
Bread Ovens at the Little Castle, Bolsover (Derbyshire). A fire would be made within each oven and then removed once the oven was hot enough.  The oven could then be used for baking for several hours.  These ovens like those in most other large houses were located in a separate room from the kitchen.

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Domestic

  •  Mr Straw’s House, Worksop (NT)
  •  Wollaton Hall, Nottingham

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Working

Brewhouse Yard Museum, Nottingham, carries material on Burtons, Smithy Row; food packaging; confectionary; drinks bottles of the 1830s; kitchen ranges and Asian and multi-cultural cooking materials.

Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington has two kitchens of the late nineteenth century fitted out as they would have been in the period.

Flintham Museum, Flintham, Notts. The museum looks at rural life through the eyes of the village shopkeeper. There are all sorts of food related material, artefacts and documents at the museum. www.flintham-museum.org.uk

Mansfield Museum has some material relating to food preparation and kitchens.

Newark Museum has some material relating to malting and brewing.

Southwell Workhouse, Southwell, Notts. (National Trust at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/places/theworkhouse/ ) Diets and food served in the workhouse.

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