• Getting to Know
• Gallery
• Dating Your House
• Design by Style
• Design by Room
• Design by Element
• Decorative Features and Furnishings
• People in Your Period Home
• The Family
• The Man
• Introduction
• His Day
• His Clothes
• Pastimes and Leisure
• The Woman
• The Children
• The Staff

Introduction

In our late Victorian, suburban family of London, Sidney Charles Bush is 40 years old.

He lives in a good-sized, end-of-terrace house built just two years ago.

He has done well for himself - after starting as a messenger, straight from school, with William Georgson, Importers of the City of London, he has progressed to the position of senior clerk in charge of 50 clerks.