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My Historic Beds

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Hangings and bedclothes for the Great Bed of Ware (c.1590): Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Great Bed of Ware, showing mattresses, pillows and bedstaff.

Replica mediaeval ‘suspended canopy’ bed (c.1465): Walraversijde Mediaeval Village, Domein Raversijde, Belgium.

Hangings in replica dornix fabric: 17th century bed at St Fagans National Museum of History, near Cardiff

Replica ‘French bed’(c.1620): Nantclwyd-y-Dre, Ruthin, Denbighshire.

Replica Georgian bed with silk hangings (c.1740): Nantclwyd-y-Dre, Ruthin, Denbighshire.

Young girl’s bed with dimity hangings (1875): The Rectory at the Story of Emily, St Ive, Cornwall.

Hangings for half-tester bed (1875): The Rectory at the Story of Emily, St Ive, Cornwall.

1960s bed: Blaenavon Ironworks, S.Wales

Poor family’s bed (c. 1841): Blaenavon Ironworks, S.Wales

Replica 17th-century bed with truckle bed: Oxwich Castle, Gower

Interactive truckle bed: Black and White House, Hereford

Interactive half-headed bed: Black and White House, Hereford

Beating out the mattress: half-headed bed, Strangers Hall, Norwich

Fictive royal bed, 1619: Kirby Hall (English Heritage)

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