Our information on this photo centres on Tom Burden’s cottage and says it was demolished because it was past saving.
The cottage referred to is the Tudor one at the left of this photo. Many people felt the demolition was something of a scandal but if asked, ‘would you have lived there?’ the answer was invariably, ‘oh no!’
It may have been sad, but the old, tumbledown damp and fairly derelict cottage went and was replaced by a modern house much more suited to present day needs. And we have photos and personal memories of the old cottage. It is now long gone but it is not forgotten.
There are many other changes that might be seen in that view today.
Well actually it is hardly recognisable as the same place.
Tags: 1970s, Northbrook, then and now
Market Lavington Museum 
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