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The Edwardian Country House
"I don't know what I've let myself in for. At the moment I think I've walked into a bit of a nightmare."
Kenny, hallboy
THE PROJECT|THE HOUSE|THE PEOPLE|EDWARDIAN LIFE|YOU IN 1905|TREATS|SNOB QUIZ

This week we say goodbye to Manderston House


Upstairs
The family are expected to discuss issues of the day at the dinner table
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Downstairs
When they eat, the lower servants are only allowed to speak if Mr Edgar the butler allows them to
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"I used to go to tea at my grandfather's house, and the first thing he’d say was 'children should be seen and not heard' – and we’d have tea in silence. And I actually thought that’s what the man was like. I’m like him now!"
Mr Edgar, butler
About the Series: This Week

Episode Six: "Winners and Losers"

Three months at Manderston are drawing to a close and everyone has to face up to going back to his or her normal life.

A servants’ ball is to bring the family and their staff in direct contact on the staff’s home ground. This proves an uncomfortable experience for Sir John who is beginning to realise that the apparent deference of his servants may only have been surface deep.

By now everyone in the house has been exposed for three months to nothing but Edwardian culture. From this vantage point they consider what their Edwardian future might have been. In each of their parting rituals we see them weigh up the pros and cons of their life as the last living Edwardians. They say their goodbye’s dressed to take up their old lives in the modern world.

Watch this week's video diaries here!