AS PRETTY AS A PICTURE | HERITAGE
As Pretty as a Picture Peakirk’s Lost Cottages by Dr Avril Lumley Prior
Poring over old images of Peakirk’s lost cottages, it is easy to become wistful for a bygone age and muse about roses round the door, delphiniums, hollyhocks and lupins in bee-buzzed gardens and cucumber sandwiches on a manicured lawn. But distance lends enchantment to the view. Delightful as they appear, these low-tech, high-maintenance, vernacular homes had neither running water nor electricity, were heated by smoky coal fires and had leaking roofs. Their gardens grew vegetables rather than flowers and the privy was outside as far away from the house as possible. >> vil agetribune
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