Old Mother Hubbard: The Cupboard that Inspired the Poem

While traveling in southwest England (primarily Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall), we stayed at a B&B a few miles from Plymouth called "Kitley House." It looks like something out of a Jane Austen novel, and I later found out that they used Kitley House as a place to film the BBC version of "Sense and Sensibility." One of the claims to fame at the Kitley house, is that the woman who wrote, "Old Mother Hubbard," the well-known children's rhyme, was the housekeeper there, and it was at this very house where she wrote the poem. The B&B owner allowed me to take a picture of the gigantic cupboard that inspired the rhyme, even though it was in a room that was mainly used for storage.

To learn more about "Old Mother Hubbard" and its origins at the Kitley House, click here.
To view a video about Kitley House, click here.
To get a complete history of the Kitley House, click here.