They Also Serve: The Butler's Tale - the remarkable true story of a butler's life below stairs

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Tom Quinn

They Also Serve

Name: They Also Serve
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ISBN: 9781444735925

The Butler's Tale - the remarkable true story of a butler's life below stairs

Tom Quinn

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English

Hodder Paperback
09 October 2012

Biography: general; Service industries

Series: True Stories of Life Below Stairs

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.

As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks, boil rabbits for the estate dogs, carry the wood up and down stairs every day for thirty fires and sleep on the floor outside his master's room. He cleaned shoes, ironed underwear and socks and once had to stand all night in the hall waiting for a late visitor to arrive.

But as a butler he was the best paid servant in the house, waited on, feared and respected by the other servants. Bob Sharpe knew the real world of upstairs downstairs and the secrets of the landed gentry - even to the point of incest and attempted murder!

By: Tom Quinn
Imprint: Hodder Paperback
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 211g
ISBN: 9781444735925
ISBN 10: 1444735926
Series: True Stories of Life Below Stairs
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bob Sharpe, who was born in 1902 and died in 1985, worked both in London and in several country houses. Tom Quinn is the editor of the Country Landowner's Magazine. He has written several small books for small independent publishers. He has spent the last twenty years interviewing people who worked in domestic service, getting them to tell him their life stories.