Fifties joinery

Like many other old provincial hotels, the White Hart has a modern extension out the back, but rather than the usual small barrack block we have a small tower block, built we think in the sixties.

Some of the furnishings were carried forward from the past (note, for example, the coat rack for visiting rotarians and masons), but I was more interested in the main staircase, illustrated. Perhaps put in at the very end of the era when things like balustrades for staircases would have been made on the spot by the main contractor's carpenters. A little flimsy to my mind, despite being nicely made of oak, but they looked well enough. And maybe the sort of people who might take on enough liquor for the flimsiness to be a problem are not encouraged.