A FAMOUS BED.
The most famous bed in England—the Great Bed of Ware, which ic to find a new home in the Victoria and Albert Museum—was housed at the Crown Inn at Ware, Hertfordshire, for many years, and after that nt the Saracen’s Head, also in Ware. Inns seem to have specalised in giant beds in the old days, for there was one at the White Hart, Scole, Norfolk, which could accommodate 40 people! It is the biggest bed on —d. The reason for those large beds has mystified many people, but it is probably simple enough. The Bishop of Portsmouth recalled the other day that his great grandfather, an Irish gentleman, kept in his billiard room a bed which would hold eight men. “The purpose of it," said the Bishop, “was to provide ready sleeping accommodation for at least that number of guests, who, after <|inner, might prove incompetent to ride home across the Irish bogs."
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2801, 16 November 1931, Page 5
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157A FAMOUS BED. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2801, 16 November 1931, Page 5
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