'Syke' Cottage and Little House, Barkerhouse Road

'Syke' Cottage and Little House, Barkerhouse Road
'Syke' Cottage and Little House, Barkerhouse Road
'Syke' Cottage and Little House, Barkerhouse Road
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'Syke' Cottage and Little House, Barkerhouse Road
Nelson
Farm House (Syke) nearest camera. The cottage is the 2 windows at the right hand side of the main building.
Little House is the gable end on the far right.
In about 1910 the rent for the Little House was 1/- and cottage 1/6d per week.
Owned by a James Halstead at time of photograph.
10 children were brought up in the Little House about this time, in one room with a ladder to the uper floor.
Cissy Howarth was one of the children and her father drove the Chaffer Engine bringing stone down from Clough Head Quarry to the railway 'Chaffer sidings'.
He would pass Dobson Syke and his brakesman Mr. Blades would shake his fist at tiny Nora Halstead and she would shake hers back.
She believes at one period the Little House was a beer shop. Her father and brother in later years put in an open tread staircase to replace the ladder.
The Little House had a scullery at the back with a slop stone and Nora and her friends would play on its stone slab roof and slide into the field behind.
Demolished in 1923 for the building of bungalows.
Photograph was lent by Miss Nora Halstead who was born at the cottage on 28 Feb 1904. In the 1911 Census she was living at "Dobson Syke Cottage" James Halstead Head - Cotton Weaver 36; Nanny Halstead wife of 12 years with 3 children 37; Margaret Halstead 11; Nora Halstead 7; John Halstead 9 months.
Photographic print
Monochrome
15.9/10.1 cm
c1890
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L301 Dobson Syke/2
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