I wonder what actual furniture Biggles would have chosen for his flat in the 1930s and if he ever changed it over the years.
Frecks wrote:...... I think he would have wanted to be comfortable rather than fashionable.
Frecks wrote:Me too. Would the cushions match the curtains? Did they have blinds at the windows? I imagine they were fireside chairs in the living room. Would they have been leather or material, plain or patterned? The list is really quite endless and we have no clues from the books. The only thing we do know is that they had a dining table in the living room where they had tea and laid out the atlas and maps etc. There is also that mention of a breakfast room in an early book - I think that was Africa. There are also the bedrooms to consider and the bathroom. The toilet would have had a high level cistern with a chain and probably a big enamel bath and quite a large sink. Would the bathroom suite be white or an old fashioned Victorian style with flowers? The toilet seat could well have been mahogany and possibly the side bath panel.
Frecks wrote:That is very interesting Kismet. I had not realised how wealthy Dickpa was - it is a long time since I read Cruise of The Condor and the décor was not mentioned very much in Hits The Trail.
I did not know the Mount Street flat was built in the 1880s - mid to late Victorian so probably no internal bathrooms in each flat at that time but they definitely had a bathroom in Africa. What did people do in flats before they had running water to each dwelling? In Country Houses they had maids running up and downstairs with jugs of water and washstands in the guest bedrooms with bowls for the water.
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