At Home at the Geffrye Museum

I was looking for distraction when I went along to the Geffrye Museum on a recent Saturday afternoon. It was London's Open House weekend, and I followed drifts of people away from the noise of the Kingsland Road, into the calm, green courtyard of the museum. Built in 1714 by the Ironmongers’ Company at the bequest of Sir Robert Geffrye, the terrace of distinctively Georgian houses that hug the lawn was home to dozens of...