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always saved for best

9 months ago

last modified: 9 months ago

When we were growing up some of us were lucky to live in a house with more than one reception room. The question is was one room kept for best just in case the Queen paid you a surprise visit? Were you all crowded into the much smaller “snug”, sitting on the oldest furniture in the house?

we crowded into one room and that’s why I can’t eat battery chickens

no we spread out and used the big room and even put the big light on!

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Sonia
9 months ago
Mum, dad and 4 kids in a 3 bed semi. Front room was for visitors only, but that changed later when us kids grew up and my brother convinced our parents to open up the front room and dining room to create an open space. People don’t know their born nowadays!
User
9 months ago
We could only use the front reception room (called the dining room), because the rear one was used as a store room that never got cleared in the 11 years we lived there. The house had been a village pub in it's previous life and was empty for many years until my parents bought it at auction. And we only had 2 bedrooms for 6 of us!
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Linda Murrish
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Daisy England
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macbroom
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We had what my mum called ’the good room’ which had my mum’s piano in it, we rarely used that room (except mum when she played the piano and at Christmas time) and spent most of the time in the living room instead. I thought the concept of ’the good room’ nowadays was a bit outdated but my friend has what she calls the good room — and myself and other friends are almost scared to go in case in case we put a stain on the ivory silk sofas!
Angie
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My great grandparents certainly had a front room which was rarely used, and they lived in the dining/kitchen space. Not realising the “rules” my brother and I were once caught in there playing a board game! The first house I remember us living in had glazed doors between front and back rooms which were often open, so no “Sunday space.” In one house it was the dining room that was rarely used as we had a large enough kitchen for a table and chairs so mostly ate in there. That was early 70s.

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