Cottage Collection (page 12)

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. early 19th century

Cottage Life, mother peeling potatoes. mid-19th century

Children with tree and holly on a Christmas postcard
Children in the snow with tree and holly on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Four rural snow scenes on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card made from cork, with decorative border
Christmas card made from cork, with decorative floral border. Date: circa 1890s

Santa Claus bringing presents on a French Christmas postcard
Santa Claus bringing presents to a house on a French Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Santa Claus riding a donkey on a French Christmas postcard
Santa Claus riding a donkey and dropping a doll down a chimney on a French Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Holly with bell and snow scene on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Holly in skating scene on a Christmas postcard
Humanised holly in comic skating scene on a Christmas postcard. circa 1890s

Read it to Me but don t listen

Jumbles by Lewis Baumer - Pigs Cycling. 1897

Jumbles by Lewis Baumer - Girl and Dolls
Jumbles by Lewis Baumer - Girl walking with her Dolls. 1897

Design for a pair of Model Cottages for Labourers, Mechanics etc. 1857

John Miltons cottage, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, where the poet and political writer lived during the Great Plague of 1665. Date: circa 1920s

Villagers chatting over cottage gate, 1890s. One woman is holding a bundle of rhubarb. Date: 1890s

Villager with a dog, 1890s
Villager with a faithful dog, 1890s Date: 1890s

Old woman at cottage porch, 1890s
Old woman at the door of a cottage porch, 1890s Date: 1890s

Countrywomen and man flirting, 1890s
Three countrywomen chat and flirt with a farmhand with a rake, 1890s Date: 1890s

Villagers having conversation, 1890s
A group of countryside villagers having a conversation outside a cottage, 1890s Date: 1890s

British Consulate, St Vincent Island, Cape Verde Islands
British Consulate and beach cottage, St Vincent (Sao Vicente) Island, Cape Verde Islands, Atlantic Ocean. Date: 1922

Padstow, Stepper and Pentire, North Cornwall. Date: circa 1920s

Villagers outside stone cottages, 1890s
Three rustic villagers in rather posed positions, on a patch of grass ouside stone cottages, 1890s Date: 1890s

Digging a vegetable patch, 1890s
Rustic types digging over a vegetable patch outside a cottage, 1890s Date: 1890s

Millers cottage at Flatford, Suffolk, a Grade I listed building next to Flatford Mill. Date: 1930

Red Cap (Red Riding Hood) - Scene from Red Cap. Red Cap arrives at her grandmothers cottage. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: 1909

A curious old blacksmiths shop and cottage, decorated with dozens of deers antlers, Berriedale, Caithness, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Turning wood on a pole lathe, which is turned by a foot pedal. Date: 1930s

A photograph of Ann Hathaways Cottage, Shottery, near Stratford-on-Avon. The cottage remained the property of the Hathaway family until 1838. Date: 16th century

A mischievous-looking girl, caught on camera knitting in an armchair in her cottage, with her little dog behind her! Date: 1940s

A group of Dutch fisherchildren, four girls and a boy, wearing traditional costumes, including wooden clogs, waiting in a cottage doorway for their parents. Date: 1930s

Thatched Cottages at Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire
Thatched Cottages at Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire. circa 1930s

The Anglican Chapel of St Leonard in Tivington, Somerset, England. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the chapel was secularised and a fireplace installed at the east end

Bournville Village - Cottages on Sycamore Road. Bournville is a model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for its employees. circa 1910s

The Old Cottage - West Ham Park, Upton Lane, London Date: circa 1906

Interior of cottage at Wellesbourne 1872
An interior scene of men seated around a table smoking long pipes. Date: 1872

PILLOW LACE INDUSTRY
Learning from Grannie! A little girl is learning the art of making pillow lace, an industry carried on by cottagers of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. Date: 1930s

STUFFED TOMATO SALAD
Tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese, served with watercress, lettuce, etc. Date: 1930s

DEVON POSTMAN 1938
At Hartland Quay, Devon, at 16 miles (the furthest in England) from the nearest railway station, the postman delivers the afternoon, and only daily mail. Date: 1938

COUNTRY SCENE STEVENSON
An idyllic rural scene. Date: early 20th century

SOCIAL / COUNTRY COTTAGE
A typical country cottage in Gloucestershire, with trees in blossom Date: 1912

SOCIAL / COTTAGE C1880S
A picturesque country cottage, with cottager carrying two heavy buckets Date: circa 1880s

SOCIAL / FARMERS DOOR 18C
The farmers wife sits at the cottage door, talking to her two children Date: 1790

RACIAL TYPES / SCOTS CARD
A Scotswoman in her cottage cards wool, preparatory to spinning it into thread Date: 1848

CARDING WOOL / 1848
Hand carding wool in a cottage in Scotland. Date: 1848

COTTAGE INTERIOR
The interior of an East Anglian cottage (the family home of the poet Crabbe) - the mother engaged in netmaking, the dog in sleeping, the child in his schoolwork Date: early 19th century

READING HIS BIBLE
SUNDAY MORNING An elderly man sits in his cottage, reading The Bible Date: 1881

Rus Saint-Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, France
Children pose for the photographer outside the thatched cottage in the Rue Saint-Vincent, a Montmartre side street. Date: 1912

Gardener at Henri IV cottage, Montmartre, Paris, France
A gardener waters his plants outside a thatched cottage said to have been the home of King Henri IV, or at any rate where he entertained his lady friends. Date: circa 1905

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