Child’s wooden high chair

Added by Barbara Duncan

Located under Furniture

Story behind the treasure: My treasured item is a child’s wooden high chair which converts to a low rocking chair. It originally belonged to the family of a Northumberland cleric and all six of their children used the chair from the late 1890’s when my maternal grandmother was employed as a nurse. After my grandmother married and started her family they gave her the chair and over the following seventy years, a procession of family bottoms sat in the seat. It now stands proudly in my hall – albeit in need of some TLC due to several decades of messy eaters!

You can see this treasure on display at Nostell Priory and Parkland from March-September 2010.