A Look Around Whittakers Cottages W&D Museum
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Taking a tour of Whittakers Cottages at the Weald and Downland Living museum.
This pair of cottages was built in the mid 1860s, facing the newly opened Epsom-Leatherhead railway. They were built for rent and were occupied by agricultural labourers. One of the cottages has been left unfinished inside, to expose the timber-framed structure. The other has been furnished to a late-19th century date.
I remember growing up in the 50's in a 2up 2down victorian house. Single glazed, nice frost on the inside in winter, gas mantle in the living room only, candles everywhere else, cast range, meat safe, cold water only and an outside privvy.
No central heating, double glazing, power showers, or 3days a week and off to the leisure centre then!
You grew up tough! Very cool.
Pitt-sawn timbers in 1860 in the land that is the heart of the industrial revolution totally amazes me. In general, pitt-sawing lumber in America tends to die out as soon as water powered saw mills are established in a settled area. Even straight saw marks from water powered sash saws tend to indicate an earlier date in America than 1860, as the circular saw was predominant by that time. Great tour and very informative. Many thanks.
This is definitely one of my favourite buildings at the museum.
Please do more of your tour commentaries on old buildings. They are fascinating, relaxing and wonderful. Thank you.
Very educational. My house in the US was built circa 1860 and I noticed construction styles very similar to those shown in your video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Harry for this nice and relaxing video. Blessings from Canada.
Very interesting again Harry...as I've said before I really like the old ways... so simple and everything you need....thx again... John
Amusing to see they have the same model range as we have. Every year our chimney sweep tells us we're the only people he knows still using one. Very handy in a power cut.
That was fascinating, we don’t know how spoilt we are now days do we? I can remember aged 4 my mum still using a mangle. When my father finally got her a front loader she wouldn’t use it for a month convinced it would never wash the clothes clean… lol! Great memories.
Thank you, I really enjoyed this video and to see how they lived back then must have been hard.
Thanks...yes mangles, ice on windows and white mould on shoes comes back!
Thank you, Harry. I always enjoy the tours.
Thanks
That was most excellent. Thank you.
So interesting. The middle part of my house in USA, in Iowa, was built about 1859, saw it when residing it. Lots of additions. Thank you for filming all this.
Another great tour. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Very interesting . thank you for the video
Very interesting! FYI as an engineer I saw a lot of buildings of this construction after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The actual above-foundation structures survived just fine under approx. 2g ground accelerations (twice the design seismic loads of the then (2011) building regulations). Nailed timber framing with cut-in bracing is deceptively strong -- these older buildings tended to survive much better than brand new buildings. From what I saw in the video I'd be quite happy being in that cottage during a big quake.
Thanks David, thats very interesting.
Thank you for this excellent tour 👍
Nice one Harry
Por suerte pude conocer casas como esa personalmente. Realmente muy lindas. Gracias por el video Harry !!!
We live in Epsom very near Ashtead and there are still similar cottages in use dotted around this area.
Informative as ever Harry.
Thanks Gary
Using human waste as fertilizer is quite acceptable, but I believe it was sterilized first by "cooking it" before spreading it about to prevent passing on bad things to the crop.
Are you planning on doing an update on the building with wood shingles you made a video on?
Hopefully, at the moment we are making slow progress with about half the roof done. We are also going to do a film on making a chair in a day!