Harper, Charles George, 1863- · London, Chapman & Hall · leaf 277
THWAITE 259 the " parlour," where massive and sombre furniture, covered with antimacassars, is disposed with geo- metric accuracy around the room, in company with the family Bible and the prizes taken at school by the farmer's children ; the stale and stuffy atmo- sphere proclaiming that this state… … C5««W£_. THWAITE LOW HOUSE.' Perhaps it is a custom originating in a laudable idea of paying the greatest possible respect to the dead, but it is one which certainly gives a gruesome mortuary significance to both the entrance and the room. Thwaite or "Twaite," as East Anglians, incap- able of…
Norwich Road · England -- Description and travel
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