Gallery

Margaret and Steve worked for many years in educational aid to developing countries. Artefacts and pictures collected in these countries have been used to decorate the guest house.

In the breafast room, for example, there are balata figures made by the indigenous people of Guyana
On the window ledge and the dresser stand statuettes of mother figures from Cameroon
On one wall hangs a set of three pictures of desert plants found in Namibia drawn by the local artist, Christine Marais.
		On another wall is a carved wooden door from a chief's house in northern Cameroon.  This is a detail.
On a third hangs a metal water carrier from Jordan.

Elsewhere in the house there are textiles from Iran.
		This intricate embroidery from Rasht, a town near the Caspian Sea, was made by a young girl to show that she was adept with her needle and would make a good wife.
Half way up the stairs is an embroidery made with wool instead of thread.  This is typical of the work used in making saddle bags for donkeys, horses or camels
		Another woolen embroidery taken from a saddle bag is in Room 3, one of the four poster bedrooms.
In many of the rooms and on the stairs there are pictures of Namibia, an extraordinarily photogenic, desert country.
We have not forgotten our own country, though.  You will see a lovely English barometer at the bottom of the stairs and a warming pan given to Margaret by her mother outside the door to Room 1.
We hope you will enjoy these objects as much as we do and that they will add pleasure to your stay at The Bentley.

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