{"id":148141,"date":"2024-11-14T00:52:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-remarkable-feat-of-19th-century-joinery-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:47:09","slug":"a-remarkable-feat-of-19th-century-joinery-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-remarkable-feat-of-19th-century-joinery-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"A remarkable feat of 19th-century joinery | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGeorge Browne\u2019s fitted kitchen | Regional restaurants | National Dried Milk | Human infestation | Lysistrata revisitedMargarete Sch\u00fctte-Lihotzky\u2019s fitted kitchen was not the first (\u2018That damned kitchen!\u2019 How the inventor of the fitted kitchen came to see it as a curse, 12 November). George Browne, of Troutbeck in the Lake District, built his\u00a0stunning fitted kitchen in the early 1800s. It would be hard to adapt the design to modern kitchens, but it\u2019s a remarkable feat of joinery that\u2019s worth seeing at Browne\u2019s farmhouse, Townend, which is now in the care of the National Trust.Lynn FotheringhamOver Kellet, Lancashire\u2022 Like Colin Struthers, I live in the Rossendale Valley and would like to see restaurant recommendations nearer to where I live (Letters, 8 November). We can even get out of the valley to Manchester, but they won\u2019t let us on the London train with our ferrets. Carole Ludlow Mooney Bacup, Lancashire Continue reading…
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