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A Greek Revival parlour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members.
Head house-maid: the senior house maid, reporting to the housekeeper. (Also called "house parlour maid" in an establishment with only one or two upstairs maids). Parlour maid: they cleaned and tidied reception rooms and living areas by morning, and often served refreshments at afternoon tea, and sometimes also dinner. They tidied studies and ...
Articles about women who worked as maids, female domestic workers.In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. [1]
The most recent inscriptions were the Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front), a transnational site shared with France. The Sonian Forest , part of the 18-country site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe , is the only natural site in Belgium; the others are cultural ...
Havré was a wealthy municipality from the 19th century to 1950, with forests, salt refinery, tannery, tabac fabric, gunpowder factory, glass factory, phosphate quarry, but mostly thanks to coal mines which employed more than a thousand people.
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Hotton (French pronunciation:; Walloon: Houton) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.The municipality lies 12 kilometers from Marche-en-Famenne in the Ardennes and has more than 5,400 inhabitants.
The large gothic style station building was designed by Leuven architect Pierre Langerock. It has coloured stained glass windows and is a protected monument. There are some inscriptions remaining from the German occupation. To the front of the station is a square half-encircled by a balustrade.