It’s used as a potting/tool shed. However its history is quite interesting. Our cottage was built, we understand, in 1872 by a railway worker who was working on the branch line connecting the neighbouring town to the main railway network. The brick shed is just like those seen alongside railway lines used as workers’ huts. The railway line closed with the Beeching cuts and though our village never had a station, our former next door neighbour frequently used the train and just asked the driver to slow down so he could hop off the moving train.
The window extension was put in during the 1970s and a photo from 1970 shows there to be a door, only 5’ high, below the wooden lintel above the lion’s head fountain. The lion’s head, very heavy cast iron, was picked up for a pittance in a French brocante.
We have been told that the original owner of our house was fascinated by the idea of parachuting off a nearby railway viaduct using a parachute made out of bed sheets. Thinking this might be a bit foolhardy he experimented first by dragging his Mum’s dining table up to the top of the viaduct. When it smashed into a hundred pieces he acknowledged the folly of his plan.
At the moment, it’s difficult to take any photos in the garden that would not include rubble mountains, sand bags, cement bags, broken concrete slabs, overturned turf heaps and various gardening tools...
Hello pitter-patter, can you tell me what the last 2 plants in your phots are, please? They look lovely.
I'll have a guess on those, just in case our friend @pitter-patter has already gone to bed. I'd say the last but one is a Geum of some sort and the last one a Tiarella. Let's see what the correct answers are some time tomorrow. Good night!
@BenCotto. That is so interesting,its a very eyecatching building, much nicer than a wooden shed,certainly a talking point. Thankyou for the explanation. Off for another look now!
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The window extension was put in during the 1970s and a photo from 1970 shows there to be a door, only 5’ high, below the wooden lintel above the lion’s head fountain. The lion’s head, very heavy cast iron, was picked up for a pittance in a French brocante.
We have been told that the original owner of our house was fascinated by the idea of parachuting off a nearby railway viaduct using a parachute made out of bed sheets. Thinking this might be a bit foolhardy he experimented first by dragging his Mum’s dining table up to the top of the viaduct. When it smashed into a hundred pieces he acknowledged the folly of his plan.
I'll have a guess on those, just in case our friend @pitter-patter has already gone to bed.
@FiddlingOn The geum is Cosmopolitan. In the last photo the tiarella Spring Symphony and the grass is Luzula Nivea.
@Perki Lovely photos, do heucheras tolerate sun quite well in your experience? I like them but I’m struggling with too much sun in my new garden.