About a decade ago, the trust started to satisfy public curiosity about life below stairs by opening servants'quarters and kitchens, including the monumental kitchen at Lanhydrock, which has huge spits for roasting entire animals and separate larders for groceries, fish and meat.
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And yet, both above and below stairs, ritual is what rules, whether it's etiquette of the visiting servants ( Clive Owen and Kelly Macdonald among them ) or a gesture as simple as Smith's snobbish countess applying cucumber slices to her weary eyes.
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She broadcasts on BBC radio and television; in 2012 she was consultant for a three part BBC 2 documentary series, " Servants : the True Story of Life below Stairs ", in part a response to the hugely popular " Downton Abbey " series.
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Minute instructions are given on household routine ( after a cold bath at 7 a . m . a wife must supervise her husband's breakfast ), and on protocol ( " on entering the kitchen, invariably say,'Good morning, cook,'a courtesy much appreciated below stairs ).
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"Below Stairs " inspired the television series " Upstairs, Downstairs ", which was created by two actresses whose mothers had also been " in service " . and it was one of the inspirations of the series " Downton Abbey ", which began in 2011.
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The scene from " High Life Below Stairs " simply ridicules the stupidity of the characters, as Samuel Schoenbaum notes, adding that, " the Baconians, who discern in Townley's farce an early manifestation of the anti-Stratfordian creed, have never been remarkable for their sense of humour ".
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Meanwhile below stairs, Mrs . Bridges is sitting in her chair, crying brokenheartedly, and feeling very guilty, the devastated Bellamy staff stay behind from the servants'outing, and Hudson, using his various contacts, has the undertakers, Mr . Waterman and Mr . Lowe, take her body out of the house.
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After sensationalist tabloid headlines, Clark's wife Jane remarked upon what Clark had called " the coven " with the line : " Well, what do you expect when you sleep with below stairs types ? ", and referred to her husband as an " S, H, one, T ".
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The exhilaration lies instead in the speed and craft with which Altman details a world that is clearly new to him _ the regimen, for instance, of the below stairs retinue, a lineup rife with demarcations every bit as precise as the lords and ladies for whom they exist.
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He divides his attention between the " above stairs " aristocrats and the " below stairs " servants _ but one of the film's points is that class systems inevitably break down, so it turns out that the servants and the aristocrats are more entangled than we at first realize.
