Stenwith

Stenwith Lock House, in 2007
A time capsule
Stenwith farm cottage, seen from the Lock House grounds.
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A last picture, looking from the Lock House up the slope to the farm cottage on the skyline.
Machinery abandoned outside the sheds at the Lock House.
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These pictures show some of the larger items of machinery left lying around outside the sheds, including one of two ...
Inside the sheds at the Lock House
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These pictures give an idea of the jumble of ‘stuff’ that were in the sheds when Sid Damms departed from ...
A view of the rear of the Lock House cottage
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This is a view of the rear of the cottage, showing the small window of the living room and the ...
More of the sheds at the Lock House
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This is how the shed looked when visited soon after Sid Damms had had to leave, and before the diggers ...
Some of the old sheds at the Lock House
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Already seen in Margaret Langton’s photos earlier in this sequence, these are some of the shed put up by the ...
The plough, seen in profile.
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This shows the elegant design of this small plough.
The plough share
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This shows the intricate shape of the blade of the plough, which has been damaged in the past and patched ...
An old plough, on the grass by the Lock House
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This small plough was standing on the grass by the cottage. Intended for light work, drawn by a horse and ...
The trolley
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This simple trolley built by the brothers was used to ferry goods and materials to the cottage. There was no ...
An old canal distance marker
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This is one of the numerous items of ‘bric a brac’ scattered about the cottage and surroundings.
Filtering the water supply
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Apparently water for cooking etc. was taken from the canal and cleared by passing it through a sand-filled filter vessel, ...
The coal store
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The coal was stored in this roof-less brick structure close to the house.
The toilet facilities
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This is the rough, home built seating arrangement in the outside toilet.
The coal shed
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Next to the privvy was another sturdily built shed used to store the coal. When Sid Damms left, there was ...
The outside privvy
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Lacking any mains drainage or even a septic tank, the cottagers relied on the old ‘earth closet’ or ‘privvy’ in ...
The lime-ash concrete bedroom floor
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Like many old houses in the area, the bedrooms had lime-ash concrete floors.
Bedroom fire place
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Each of the chimney stacks in the gables of the house contained two flues, one from the downstairs fire places ...
The landing.
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This picture was taken looking along the small landing that connected one bedroom with the other, and of course the ...
The top of the stairs
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I can’t quite recall the arrangement at the top of the stairs, but it looks as though there was small ...
Bottom of the stairs
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The staircase had a door at the bottom and was boxed in, to reduce drafts. There was an understairs cupboard ...
The 'spare' sewing machine.
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There were two sewing machines. This one had a mechanical treadle, and fly wheel and belt to power the machine, ...
Interior of the dining-room.
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As seen earlier in the sequence, this shows the interior of the dining, simple but pleasant, with the old sewing ...