This shows the working side of the bread oven. This is the view from the fire place showing the oven door way where the bread would have been placed in.Obviously there was a door fitted at that time.All looks a bit labour intensive, compared with my modern electric bread oven
What a wonderful piece of history under your own roof! I have a Swiss friend here in Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) who had the bricks for her outdoor bread over *shipped over* from Switzerland! She does make all her bread and it's delicious, but I still shake my head in wonder!
I will have to send this photo to my kids who live in an old farm house. It had a fireplace in the kitchen which has been bricked over, they are anxious to open it up. Thanks, it is beautiful.