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A last picture, looking from the Lock House up the slope to the farm cottage on the skyline.
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These pictures show some of the larger items of machinery left lying around outside the sheds, including one of two ...
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These pictures give an idea of the jumble of ‘stuff’ that were in the sheds when Sid Damms departed from ...
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This is a view of the rear of the cottage, showing the small window of the living room and the ...
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This is how the shed looked when visited soon after Sid Damms had had to leave, and before the diggers ...
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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 ...
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This shows the elegant design of this small plough.
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This shows the intricate shape of the blade of the plough, which has been damaged in the past and patched ...
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This small plough was standing on the grass by the cottage. Intended for light work, drawn by a horse and ...
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This simple trolley built by the brothers was used to ferry goods and materials to the cottage. There was no ...
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This is one of the numerous items of ‘bric a brac’ scattered about the cottage and surroundings.
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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, ...
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The coal was stored in this roof-less brick structure close to the house.
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This is the rough, home built seating arrangement in the outside toilet.
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Next to the privvy was another sturdily built shed used to store the coal. When Sid Damms left, there was ...
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Lacking any mains drainage or even a septic tank, the cottagers relied on the old ‘earth closet’ or ‘privvy’ in ...
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Like many old houses in the area, the bedrooms had lime-ash concrete floors.
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Each of the chimney stacks in the gables of the house contained two flues, one from the downstairs fire places ...
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This picture was taken looking along the small landing that connected one bedroom with the other, and of course the ...
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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 ...
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The staircase had a door at the bottom and was boxed in, to reduce drafts. There was an understairs cupboard ...
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There were two sewing machines. This one had a mechanical treadle, and fly wheel and belt to power the machine, ...
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As seen earlier in the sequence, this shows the interior of the dining, simple but pleasant, with the old sewing ...