Category: Interiors
Harry Porto? The bookshop in Porto, thought to inspire Harry Potter locations
Grandma’s kitchen – Wood stoves were the heart of every home
A 16th-century fortified Scottish castle was invaded and ransacked by a tiny masked marauder—a badger
“Baby airing”: To make sure they had fresh air, new mothers put their infants into baby cages on the windowsills
“Baby airing”: To boost their health, new mothers in the early 1900s put their infants in windowsill baby cages
Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour
St Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, praised for its architecture, wins special attention for a door that some believe inspired J. R. R. Tolkien
Remarkable invention: fore-edge, the “disappearing painting” on the edge of a book, now an endangered art form
Steampunk triumphs in the Neverwas Haul, a Victorian house on wheels inspired by science fiction novels
The fun but morbid “Struwwelpeter” is a 19th-century German children’s book in which the children suffer bizarre punishments
