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Loanend Cottages 1950s

December 24, 2015

I think this photo dates from the 1950’s. Pictured are Loanend Cottages, the terraced miner’s homes which would later become cow sheds, then back to beautifully renovated and extended homes. Were eastwards of Malcolmwood Farm, westwards of Flemington in this photo. Picket fences, well kept gardens and the houses all in good repair. It only […]

Flooding of Burnside Cottages

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November 6, 2014

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Tom Campbell recently contacted me from New Zealand to say, “to the bottom right of this map appears to be Burnside Cottages where I lived as a boy from 1958 until they were utterly destroyed by flooding of the Park Burn ten years later. I recall more than one cottage (at least three) occupied in […]