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Dam_01

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Another visit to a spot I'd seen at a distance but hadn't managed to get up to.
It's a terrace of 3 cottages perched high up on a hillside with no road up there as such. There may have been a dirt track that was last used but certainly no road to speak of.
They're past (and on the land of) quite a big farm complex and quite close to Drochil Castle and it was a bit of a last minute "on the way home" dive up to take a look.
I didn't get a whole lot of time as the light was fading and I was conscious of increased activity down at the farm.
Indeed I passed the farmer out with his dogs on the way back down but as I'd seen him I played obvious with a big tripod over my shoulder and camera attached, friendly greeting and bit of a fuss over the dogs.


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So, using an extremely useful mapping tool referenced from another long closed thread I was reading earlier, (Explore georeferenced maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland)
It would seem that the cottages are listed on 1885 mapping data and named as Upper Drochil


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They don't look in bad condition, well worth renovating. You got some great pics, Very Enjoyable, Thanks
 
The National Library of Scotland has done a magnificent job of making old large scale Ordnance Survey maps of other parts of the UK available online. I've used the six inches to the mile maps when tracing 19th century railways.

The cream coloured kitchen stove does not seem to be an Aga; perhaps a Rayburn.

I'd never heard of a Reginald brand of solid fuel heaters. Looking online, they are still being made, and available on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
 
The National Library of Scotland has done a magnificent job of making old large scale Ordnance Survey maps of other parts of the UK available online. I've used the six inches to the mile maps when tracing 19th century railways.

The cream coloured kitchen stove does not seem to be an Aga; perhaps a Rayburn.

I'd never heard of a Reginald brand of solid fuel heaters. Looking online, they are still being made, and available on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
It's a Rayburn, full of asbestos. We worried for years about getting sick from the fumes, but no sign yet!
 
It's a Rayburn, full of asbestos. We worried for years about getting sick from the fumes, but no sign yet!
My maternal grandparents had a Rayburn in their Devon home in the 1950s/1960s,
and suffered no ill effects from it. I did not know about the asbestos in it, but that makes sense when it was used in almost every situation where domestic or industrial heat insulation was needed - from ironing boards right up to steam locomotive and other boilers.
 
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