A Wooden Stool

This wooden stool has been shared with us by Betty Merrett.

Betty says this is an oak stool (possibly a coffin stool). It is 21" high, and it was given to my mother by one of my aunts sometime in the 1930s. My aunt had been a cleaner at Kingscote Church and she had been given the stool to dispose of...it was intended for a bonfire at the Hunters' Hall. My father saw it on a visit and was then given it for use as a saw bench (it still has a few marks!) I found it in the shed sometime in the 1940s and brought it into the house. Cleaned up it has been with me ever since and is one of my favourite pieces of furniture.