Embroidered bag

Today's the day ........................... to go out for lunch

We were invited out for lunch today to Merlewood, near Grange-over-Sands.

Merlewood was formerly the family home of the poet Laurence Binyon who is famously the author of the poem 'For the Fallen' which contains the lines - 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

The house was extensively restored and modernised around 2010.  This small bag was found under the floorboards in the Drawing Room and probably dates back to about the 1890s.  It's now displayed on the wall of the hall and is a reminder of how things might have been at one time in this grand house.

Victorian girls were encouraged to excel in all arts and handicrafts, embroidery, needlework and sewing - to help them to become cultured young ladies................