Cottage Collection (page 13)

PHILEMON & BAUCIS PHILEMON & BAUCIS
Poor cottagers Philemon and Baucis (husband and wife) entertained the (disguised) travellers Mercury and Jupiter so well that their cottage was transformed into a palace. Date: circa 780 BC

Old woman spinning in her cottage
An old cottage woman spins with a distaff at her fireside. Date: circa 17th century

BREAKFAST / 1893 COTTAGE
Mother serving breakfast to expectant children Date: 1893

CARDING WOOL, SCOTLAND
A Scotswoman in her cottage cards wool, preparatory to spinning it into thread Date: 1848

Universal Exhibition, Paris of 1867
The Universal Exhibition of 1867, Paris The English cottage Date: 1867

AQUATINT / COUNTRY / NOON
Noon A country couple with their children inside their cottage Date: circa 1840

WATER IN WINTER
Cottage folk obtaining water from the frozen stream in winter Date: 1870

COTTAGE PORCH
On a cottage porch, the return of the swallows to their nests heralds the coming summer Date: 1875

CHARITY VISIT 1894
A charity visit to a cottage Date: 1894

Cliff Road (Showing Rose Cottage and The Original Cheddar Valley Cheese Shop), Cheddar, Sedgemoor, Somerset, England. Date: 1947

Elderly couple standing proudly outside their thatched English country cottage. Date: circa 1930s

Signpost to Murder, Cambridge Theatre, London
Signpost to Murder, a new play by Monte Doyle, at the Cambridge Theatre, London, with Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr and Cyril Raymond. (1 of 2) circa 1962

Bunratty Cottage Fashion shop, Bunratty, Co Clare
Bunratty Cottage Fashion shop, Bunratty, County Clare, Republic of Ireland by P O Toole

Five views of the Republic of Ireland, including the City of Dublin. circa 1970s

Thatched Cottage, Bunratty Folk Park, County Clare, Republic of Ireland

Traditional Cottage, Bunratty Folk Park, County Clare, Republic of Ireland

Estate Cottage, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland

Greeting From Ireland, with views of Dublin and the countryside. circa 1960s

Beckenham Cottage Hospital, Kent. Date: 1909

A woman walks past stone cottages in the village of Bilbury
A woman walks past a row of stone cottages in the village of Bilbury, Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds of England. She wears green wellies, a red coat and a headscarf Date: circa 1990

Two thatchers East Coker, Somerset, England
Two thatchers at work up ladders on the thatched roof of a cottage in the village of East Coker, near Yeovil, South Somerset. See also Picture No. 12445700 Date: 1989

Thatching, East Coker, Somerset
Two thatchers at work up ladders on the thatched roof of a cottage in the village of East Coker, near Yeovil, South Somerset. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Thatching Isaac Walton Cottage - 2
Thatchers at work on the roof of Isaac Walton Cottage, Stafford, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Thatching Isaac Walton Cottage -3
Thatchers at work on the roof of Isaac Walton Cottage, Stafford, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Thatching Isaac Walton Cottage - 1
Thatchers at work on the roof of Isaac Walton Cottage, Stafford, England. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Cocoonery - Silk Manufacture - Syria. Date: circa 1905s

British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London - Bryant & May
Chemical Section - British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London - Bryant & May Ltd. exhibit based in a pretty tudor-style cottage

Anne Hathaways Cottage, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon Date: circa 1908

Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Hampshire - Thatched Cottage, Lane End. Date: circa 1909

Watercress Beds, Letcombe Bassett, Oxfordshire Date: circa 1910s

The Old Village, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Date: circa 1910s

A Local Woman of the Orkney Islands outside her house. Orkney was the site of a Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, where the sailor who sent this card was stationed (on HMS Royal Arthur) in June 1916

The Cottage Window by Harold Harvey (1874-1941), one of the Newlyn School of Painters, showing a woman feeding a small bird in a cage by a cottage window. Date: 1919

Guns Island, Ballyhornan - a view of cottage buildings, one thatched, in the foreground looking out over water to the island (copy negative). (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ballyhornan)

Burnfoot, Co. Antrim - a rural village street scene with a thatched cottage and a boy looking at the camera to the right. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Burnfoot). Date: circa early 1900s

Teddy bear on a bicycle. Date: circa 1900s

Molly Mops Cottage, Dorchester, Oxfordshire - good example of the brick and flint building style common throughout Chilterns area. Date: 1980s

Little Janes Cottage - Brading, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. Formerly the home in Brading, Isle of Wight, of Jane Squibb who was commemorated in Annals of the poor by the Revd Leigh (Legh) Richmond

John Bunyans Cottage, Elstow, Bedfordshire
John Bunyans Cottage, Elstow, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. Date: 1910s

Bunyans Cottage, Elstow, Bedfordshire
Bunyans Cottage, Elstow, Bedford, near Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. Showing Bunyans Cottage Date: 1920s

1920s Christmas card with snowy scene
Christmas greetings card from 1927 featuring a family in Victorian garb standing in front of a snow covered cottage. Date: 1927

Four types of old cottage and house construction: including timber framing, wattle and daub, lath and plaster, stone construction and brick construction

Dr Barnardos Village Homes, Barkingside, Ilford, Essex
Children perform a dance display at Dr Barnardos Village Homes for Girls at Barkingside, Ilford, Essex. The occasion is presumably an open day, for the benefit of visitors and benefactors

Young boy flying a kite
A young boy in a yellow check shirt with shoulder patches flies a kite on a reel of twine whilst kneeling at the base of a low hill amongst the mushrooms below his cottage home

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