downstairs staff
- servantsHired household workers
- maidHousehold cleaning worker
- cookHeat food for eating
- sculleryRoom for dishwashing
- footmanUniformed domestic male attendant
kitchen · quarters · livery · bell · service · manor · estate · domestic · chambermaid · below · hierarchy · uniform · household · Downton · parlor · Victorian · apron · master
- servantsbutler, maid, servant, servants, domestics
- Edwardian BritainEdward VII, Queen Victoria, country houses, manor houses, servants
social hierarchy in domestic service
downstairs staffupstairs
On a higher level
employers · masters · lords and ladies · lady's maid · valet
employer-employee relationship
downstairs staffmasters
Those with dominion
employers · proprietors · householders · landed gentry · aristocrats