Basement, servant's hall, interior view from north west Digital image of D 79527 CN

Description Basement, servant's hall, interior view from north west Digital image of D 79527 CN

Date 24/10/2000

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 799825

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 79527 CN

Scope and Content Servants' Hall, Pollok House, Pollok Park, Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, from north-west The servants' hall is where staff dined and socialised. However, even mealtimes would have been strictly regulated and organised according to each member of staff's rank. It is seen here after conversion to a meeting room. The size of the room indicates the large number of staff which were required at Pollok. The serving staff would have been divided into 'upper' and 'lower' servants, with the housekeeper and butler taking charge of the female and male staff respectively. The service quarters of Pollok House were re-designed around 1900 by the architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921). Comprising over 40 rooms, the basement provides a fascinating insight into the huge organisation that was required to keep a country house running. Now in the care of The National Trust for Scotland, the house is open to the public. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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