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Game Keepers Cottage In Ellemere Wood - Haswell (hasw0283)

Demolition Of Footbridge. Haswell Station
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Photograph showing the side of a small house with a flower bed in front and woodland behind; the photograph has a typed note attached which reads: Gamekeeper's Cottages, Elemore Woods, Low Haswell This photograph was submitted by Philip Soakell from the album 'History of Haswell and District', which was compiled by his grandfather Fred Soakell.

Game Keepers Cottage In Ellemere Wood - Haswell

Photograph showing the side of a small house with a flower bed in front and woodland behind; the photograph has a typed note attached which reads: Gamekeeper's Cottages, Elemore Woods, Low Haswell This photograph was submitted by Philip Soakell from the album 'History of Haswell and District', which was compiled by his grandfather Fred Soakell.

Date: 1920 - 1929


When was this photo taken? From 1940 to 1944, my mother and us 3 children lived in this cottage whilst my father was in the Army. I have a photograph of my father digging the garden with Pig Hill in the background and the garden was full of vegetables. Other photos showed us around the cottage at various times. There is one b/w photo of mother and baby brother in the doorway during the winter - the cottage was snowbound. I remember quite a few things about living here ( I and my sister attended Easington Lane school whilst we lived here - travelling by ourselves through the woods to get the bus near Elemore Colliery everyday). Before the war, my father was chauffeur to Lady Baker-Baker at Elemore Hall and my youngest brother was born at the Hall.

Comment added by Malcolm M. Gray on 06/01/2009 13:39:00

The date shown in my grandfathers albumn for the above photograph is shown as July, 1932.

Comment added by Philip Soakell on 18/03/2009 12:25:00

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