For Fairweather Manor, which returns for a third edition from Nov. 3 to 6 in Poland, more than 100 people will pay up to $424 to portray lords, ladies, hall boys and chambermaids in Edwardian England.

Kenny Skelton, who had the thankless job of hall boy - essentially servant to the servants - is a healthcare worker in modern life. As hall boy, he slept on a Murphy bed in the basement hallway ...

BOYS AS HOUSE SERVANTS.; Experiment Being Tried in Milwaukee, It Is Said, with Success. Share full article. Aug. 20, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

A hall boy – the lowest of the low – was expected to trim 300 lamps and polish 60 pairs of boots before the other domestics even got up – something that would get on anyone’s wick. Below stairs was ...

"We have a record of the hall boy, ... Servants had to use the back stairs and side entrances so that they wouldn't inadvertently come across the people to whom they ministered.

With the male servants eager to meet the new scullery maid, ... The scullery maid had the smallest bedroom, ate with the hall boy on a separate table from the other servants, ...

Ring of Service exhibit. Liberty Hall Museum (Photos courtesy of Liberty Hall Museum.) With the desire for vintage and reproduction fashions, period books and films at a fever pitch, Liberty Hall ...

By MATTHEW PRICE Newsday "Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times," by Lucy Lethbridge; W.W. Norton & Company (385 pages, $27.95) ——— Fictional D… ...

Ellen came to the house to take over as scullery maid after not one, but two maids left because they couldn't stand the hard work and endless washing up. Her real name is Carly, but after giving ...