I'd definitely recommend watching *Gosford Park* and the extras where they interviewed some people who were in service in the 1930s about the social structures below stairs.
There were big differences between the upstairs servants, butlers, housekeeper and valets and the downstairs ones who ideally would never be seen. They ate separately and the upstairs servants had perfect English, no accents, ideally.
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Date: 2016-12-19 10:13 am (UTC)There were big differences between the upstairs servants, butlers, housekeeper and valets and the downstairs ones who ideally would never be seen. They ate separately and the upstairs servants had perfect English, no accents, ideally.