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Detail of servants' sink on first floor
SC 693532
Description Detail of servants' sink on first floor
Catalogue Number SC 693532
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 41240
Scope and Content Detail of servant's sink on first floor of Achnagairn House, Kirkhill, Inverness Achnagairn House was built c.1800, and refurbished and extended 1905-10 by architect William Laidlaw Carruthers (d.1914). Originally a U-plan house, it was enlarged to contain a service wing and ballroom, built in honour of a family 21st birthday. This shows an 'Edinburgh' double sink by the manufacturers Twyfords. Lettering on the side describes this as a 'COMBINED HOUSEMAID'S SINK AND SLOP HOPPER'. Wooden rails protect the porcelain from chips from buckets being rinsed in the sinks. Housemaids in large 19th-century houses had to work very long hours, and their daily work was very physical. Sinks like this would be used for emptying out dirty water from the guest and family rooms, and for filling buckets to scrub the many floors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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