“Originally, the high chair was used by our family in Birkenhead (Cheshire) in the early 1900s for their three daughters.
The youngest married in 1938, and moved to Dalkey in 1946. The chair came too for her forthcoming son.
Used next by the eldest in Dublin, In the late 1960s the chair travelled to Bangor, Co Down to be used by two of the children of the middle sister.
Finally it came home to Dalkey for the first grandchild of the of youngest of the three daughters in 1977. It remained in Dalkey until it was donated to the Museum of Childhood Ireland.
Peter Kurtish.
McAllister Collection, Donated to the Museum of Childhood Ireland in 2023