Glory hole - do you have one? Where is it? ~What's in it?

Just a little word to the wise, PollyDolly - I believe glory hole has another meaning these days as I found to my cost when I referred to the state of my glory hole whilst having coffee with some young colleagues. The silence was deafening, followed by shrieks of laughter!

However, mine is the cupboard under the stairs. It houses the vacuum cleaner, gas meter, assorted shopping bags, light bulbs, vases & ornaments and stuff that I don't really use but "might come in one day" and dozens of books I'm "getting around to". But.... all that is about to change! I'm going to clear it all out and have a small under counter freezer put in there before winter sets in. I just need to make a start on clearing it all out.....

BlueBelle

Callistemon I was ‘educated’ by my grown up grandkids who had no idea we had such a sheltered innocent thing as a cupboard named a gloryhole when what they know as a Glory Hole is not innocent at all but very very grotesque

I don't think I want to find out!

Very easy to Google modern meaning if anyone is curious.

Callistemon I was ‘educated’ by my grown up grandkids who had no idea we had such a sheltered innocent thing as a cupboard named a gloryhole when what they know as a Glory Hole is not innocent at all but very very grotesque

If anyone wants to know what a glory hole is . PM me and I will explain.

My Grandad used to call the cupboard under the stairs The Glory Hole and I had no idea it meant anything but. Had to look it up, think I have lead a sheltered life but glad I have!

Aldom

Anyway, in my GH/cupboard under the stairs.... Electric smart meter. Step ladder. Long and short handled brushes and dust pan. Shopping trolley. Iron and ironing board. Stock of tissues. Bin liners. Kitchen rolls. Floor steam washer. Gtech handheld cleaner. Gtech vacuum cleaner. Box of useful tools. Basket of old newspapers. Stock of groceries in case of shortages this coming winter.
All neat and tidy.

My cupboard is very low with a headcracking lintel.
Oh to have a full height, well-ordered cupboard!

I have no idea about any other meaning ?

Ours is under the stairs.

I don't know where to start listing what's in there (macs, light coats, cotton shopping bags, boxes of yarn, fabric, a sewing box, LPs, yoga mat and blanket, crutches, a walking stick etc. Oh, a vacuum cleaner) but I did venture there today hunting for something we needed.
It's quite exciting discovering all the rubbish stuff I'd forgotten about.

No, I didn't find what I wanted.

Older dictionaries still give the definition of glory hole as a small room with a miscellaneous selection of objects - older GNers should not be embarrassed to continue that use!

My cupboard under the stairs opens into the kitchen, so it contains extra supplies of cleaning materials, bin bags, brush and dustpan, cool box, pegs, gardening coats, booze, emergency kit ( candles, torch) baking tins that don't fit elsewhere, and right at the back, a sewing machine, ( unused in this house and we have been here seven years). Also the bin.

Much more is stored in the garage and the shed, and overflows into the downstairs extension. Sigh..

I have two - one under the stairs and one in what is left of spare room after loft conversion. Both are overflowing because we cleared the garage this March.
The other space that could qualify is the old airing cupboard minus old hot water tank. but that is very tidy.
I really wonder if I could fit our life into any of the so called retirement apartments that I view on Rightmove.

I never knew till now that there was another meaning for glory hole! Mine is the cupboard under the stairs. It contains the vacuum cleaner, long handled dustpan and brush, ironing board, electric meter and fuse box, paper shredder, photo albums (lots), clean bedding, towels, tea towels, cushion covers, spare cushions, and "the big, black bag", full of absolutely allsorts! Oh, and my shopping trolley.

I’ve renamed mine the Hell Holes - hope that hasn’t got another meaning. It’s both the garage and the loft above. It wouldn’t be so bad, if DDs didn’t keep bringing me their stuff over to store. I’ve enough baby equipment to set up a branch of Mothercare and DD2 has just added her A level Art projects - from 2001, but she says she might need them!! Really??
My understairs cupboard seems just like Aldom’s - I like order.

It’s definitely NOT what you all think it is I agree whiff
It’s much much worse than what might be presumed I couldn’t believe it was for real when I first heard

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PollyDolly do you know what a glory hole is? If you don't either Google it or as members of your family.

As it's not what you think it is. ??

My gloryhole (!) is a garden shed .

And here's something that I don't want to explain again -hardening off referring to plants , of course .

I saw the suppressed amusement and then when the men thought that I was out of earshot - a massive explosion of laughter !

Anyway, in my GH/cupboard under the stairs.... Electric smart meter. Step ladder. Long and short handled brushes and dust pan. Shopping trolley. Iron and ironing board. Stock of tissues. Bin liners. Kitchen rolls. Floor steam washer. Gtech handheld cleaner. Gtech vacuum cleaner. Box of useful tools. Basket of old newspapers. Stock of groceries in case of shortages this coming winter.
All neat and tidy.

Ooh er, Missus, I certainly do but I don't normally boast about it!

PS Recently I innocently referred to the Glory hole and there was some sniggering from the other person. The penny soon dropped. The term has taken on a new and quite different meaning. As my husband used to say... 'To the pure all things are pure'.

Gloryhole!
Okay I get it !
It's another word - not to say .
Here's something that I said the other day, I'm a tea bag !
Don't ask !

The cupboard under the stairs - all sorts of things reside in there!

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We used to call it a glory hole back in the day. I also had an uncle Dick.
They are now the cupboard under the stairs and Uncle Richard because of the other meanings!!!

To answer the OP. Henry the vacuum cleaner lives there with the gas meter, step ladder, mop and bucket and many other shelves, boxes and hooks of stuff.