The Geffrye Museum

Here's some shots of the Geffrye Museum. It started life as an almshouse for the poor (Mr Geffrye was a mayor of London) and now is the only museum dedicated to depicting urban dwellings in England throughout the centuries. If you are a big antique furniture and architecture fan like me, this is the museum for you. They have different rooms arranged according to the period i.e Elizabethan, Edwardian etc, right through to the present day, and each christmas they decorate the rooms according to how the people celebrated christmas at the time. Before Victorian times, christmas was not a huge thing, landlords and peasants would exchange midwinter gifts, but that was about it. Decorated trees became fashionable when Albert and Victoria and family had their picture published showing how royalty spent their Christmas. Well, if it's good enough for the Queen...