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Bonus Ep 34 - The INSIDES of The Great English Country Houses

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Bed Bugs - What Room Number Am I?

The servant class and all of the staff lived downstairs. They would work in the lowest levels of the house, which were often underground. When we say upstairs downstairs, I suppose we're talking about the daytime. At night, the servants often lived in the attics. That's where my sister used to sleep. My sister was in the attic. It was boiling. We'd go around to his house after school and he had the attic divided into two rooms. One was his sort of study in recreational room and the other was his bedroom. This was beyond cracking a window, honestly. So basically, this was in order to keep the servants out of sight, out of mind.

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