What kind of building is this and where??

[Lydart]

It's not April 1st, is it ?

[Gadget]

Lydart ~

I think we might need you and garlic and stuff at this rate 

The cat one is fairly normal - well if you think that cats in high chairs with a place setting and napkin in a silver holder is normal 

[Dave Francis]

Now all we need to do is find the cat in the 1901 Census.
Can anyone read the name tag?

[Lydart]

Doesnt your cat have proper table ware then Gadget ??  

[d.weaving]

Dave & Lydart 

[Gadget]

Seconded 

Added - but I don't have a cat - never have. 

[Rian]

I have just found this fascinating thread and felt I had to put in my two bob's worth.
I think the ceiling is definitely glass and that's why everything is lighted from above. Look at the metal "strapping" which continues down the walls. The walls could also be glass, especially the right hand side one. The "doors  at the end I think are tall cupboards— the bed on the right is stopping it being used as a door to a room and it would be odd to have two room doors placed like this.
I reckon it was built as a fancy conservatory (possibly on a roof), later used as a private chapel (those rails are unlikely to be anything else), then turned into a granny flat for two elderly ladies. The "ghost" in the corner looks like the dressmaker's dummy my mother used to have, but with a wide skirt. Was one of the ladies a dressmaker?
I can't imagine it being a set for anything — aren't sets meant to resemble something recognisable? This is so confused it could be a storage attic if it wasn't so tidy!
Great photo anyway. And I love the cat pic too

Cheers, Rian.

[Lydart]

Glass ceiling ?  I don't think so ... if the bed is used as a guide for size, and is 6' long, then those curved pieces of glass would each be something like 8 or 9' long, and curved, so therefore would have to be quite thick ... therefore I think the supports for the 'glass' are too thin ? 

And where IS this second bed people keep mentioning ?  I have enlarged it until it is a mass of the blurry pixels, and can't see it anywhere ! 

The only thing that to me looks genuine are the two sanctuary rails, and the step this side of the rails for kneeling on.   If it was a church or chapel, then with those two doors at the far end, it could be Orthodox, yet it hasn't got the necessary central door you would find in an Orthodox church.  If its not Orthodox, then what sort of church would have two doors at the far end of the sanctuary ?  It just doesn't make sense.   

I think I need to go to bed and pray for a peaceful night, with no dress-makers dummies, automaton monkeys and stuffed birds invading my dreams !  But I'll be back on here at dawn to see how this fascinating thead is panning out !

G'night all !

[PrueM]

... and having had another look at it, has anyone any idea about the big studs to the top and right of the picture ? Or are they part of the frame holding the slide ?

Hi Lydart!  Yes, I mentioned this back on page 1: 

It also looks like the neg is a photo of a photo - the original picture seems to have been pinned onto something and then photographed again, which is the picture you have.  Odd! 
Prue