In someone’s kitchen, from about 1900, a hearty stew may have been bubbling in a cast iron pot on the hot plates of this stove. Perhaps a loaf of crusty bread was also baking in its oven on the right, and the cook, most likely a woman (since at the time cooking was considered women’s […]
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With smoke billowing out throughout the day, the red brick chimney of the Maitland Gaol cookhouse towered over the perimeter walls, serving as a focal point for the people of East Maitland. This date stone installed on the chimney and marking the year it was built, is now all that survives of the cookhouse (demolished […]
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