Antique Treen Trenchers - evolution of the plate
An antique treen trencher was a flat rectangular/square piece of wood which was indented in the centre to retain the juices from food...
Antique Treen Tinder Boxes
A couple of years ago I posted an article on tinder boxes showing images of a heart shaped one. Recently I found a wall hanging oak...
Antique Treen Coffee Grinders in the 17th and 18th century
The first social coffee house was believed to have opened in the UK in Oxford 1651 to1652 closely followed by one opening in London. Coffee houses began to spring up all over London and in cities around the Uk. Initially the first one in London was a shed, it became so popular than within a year or two became a proper coffee house within ten years there were over 83 coffee houses in London. They were meeting places for men, women were excluded from these coffee houses and so
