Overview

• More than 60 personal items donated by grandson Gordon Edwards include photographs, letters, postcards, a handmade engagement frame, Alf’s Eastman Kodak camera and Caroline’s gold wedding watch
• The trove has been catalogued and conserved as English Heritage’s most significant collection of servants’ objects, offering the earliest-known images of Brodsworth Hall staff
• Select pieces such as World War I registration cards, a carved oak stool and three pipes went on public display at Brodsworth Hall from late July
• Alf Edwards’s passion for photography led him to use a staff kitchen as a makeshift studio, where he met kitchen maid Caroline Palmer and later married her in July 1916
• After Alf’s death from tuberculosis in September 1919 left Caroline with two infant sons, she preserved these artifacts until their public unveiling this month