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Smallest cottage ever!

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LittleWhiteDove2022351

LittleWhiteDove2022351 Report 1 Apr 2010 16:18

Well I've been searching Lyndon in Rutland. My G Grandad and the Sidney family all born in Lyndon on the census they appear to live next to The Rectory (now demolished)'So I googled The Rectory and it comes up with The Lodge to the old Hall. So I go further up the road to the left and you come to the Church.Went a bit further and there it is! Don't blink or you'll miss it!!!

Tricia xx

Sally

Sally Report 1 Apr 2010 16:25

lol......at least it has survived Tricia......nice to be able to visit where a Gt. Grandparent lived....

....I tried finding old photos of my Gt.Gt.s house, expecting a weavers cottage, even though they had a big family, and saw a big building there and thought maybe they were richer than I thought, so wrote to the address of the surgery that was the address where they had lived and found it had been demolished along with the rest of the small weavers cottages in the road, and replaced by other buildings, and they were kind enough to send me old photos which showed how it was......

Hope you get to go to Rutland to tread in their footsteps......

LittleWhiteDove2022351

LittleWhiteDove2022351 Report 1 Apr 2010 16:57

Hi Sally,
Yes it is still there I hope.. Hoping to get there this summer as never left the house hardly last year because of my back. Next Thursday I get some more Jabs to help with pain and if they work.We're Off!!! Can't wait.. Cemeteries of England look out... I'm back.. LOL
I found a link to a better photo of the cottage I'll add it I think. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/209913

Julia

Julia Report 1 Apr 2010 17:11

I go regularly past the 'house' where my mother and another two of her sisters were born. I also have a print, suitably,and professionally framed, hanging in my front room. It was a very different life to that lived by us children, with a skating lake in winter, and a pony and trap driver, to bring the girls back up from the front gates. They were not allowed out the grounds. And being taken to see the Earl of Harrington, when he bought his hounds for hunting a few miles away.
I am talking about Eastwood Hall, just over the border from here in Nottinghamshire. Sadly for me, now a health spa and conference centre.
Julia in Derbyshire

Researching:
Turner Cambs/.Northants, Singapore and Penang,Trengrove Singapore and Penang, Arnull (Champion Race Horse Breeders & Trainers 'Oleander')Germany and Denmark

LittleWhiteDove2022351

LittleWhiteDove2022351 Report 1 Apr 2010 20:47

Ooh Julia sounds quite idyllic..
Do your family still own that hall, you could have free weekends of total pampering...I'd be tempted to book in to see what it's like inside..
How lovely to have a framed picture of it..

hey maybe I worked it out wrong and my family lived in The Hall really.. no such luck eh? lol

Tricia xx

Sally

Sally Report 1 Apr 2010 20:54

What a find Patricia!......looks really cute and a shame it did not survive, but lovely of someone to take a photo.......sorry about the painful back but do wish you luck with your cemetaries etc......