Balsham, Thatched Cottage 1959
Photo ref: B725006
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Photo ref: B725006
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This traditional timber-framed cottage has been extended to the right with a small dairy. The long-straw roof has an attractive patterned border and ridge.

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This lovely cottage looks like the one which was located near where I used to live and go to school back in the 1960s. If I am right then the curved space in the bottom right of this picture was the boundary of a school playground. The village primary school was directly across the road on Church Lane before it moved to it's new location. My family lived at 4 Church Lane between 1964 and 1969, before ...see more