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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Love story of two Edwardian servants on Yorkshire estate told in new collection

English Heritage curator Eleanor Matthews examines an early 1900s camera
English Heritage curator Eleanor Matthews examines an early 1900s camera once belonging to Alf Edwards, a valet at Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire. Photograph: Richard Lea-Hair/Richard Lea-Hair/English Heritage

He was a valet, she was a kitchen maid and more than a century ago they met because of his passion for photography and desperate need of a warm place to use as a makeshift studio.

Alf Edwards and Caroline Palmer worked at opposite ends of an imposing country house, set in a huge estate with hundreds of employees, and there was little other reason for their paths to cross.

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