Romney’s Cottage Barrow - 1910s

  • Description

    Location: Ormsgill Ward, Barrow-in-Furness. An early 18th-century home known as High Cocken located on the edge of Hawcoat Quarry in the Ormsgill area. This was the residence of painter George Romney, who lived there between the ages of 8 and 21 before relocating to Kendal and eventually London. Gateway and end view showing lowest doorway marked as "Ladies Room”. Terraced gardens and stone walls. Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. id 2026, BDB 86/1/339. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
  • Owner

    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2201
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Edmund Anon
    Last modified: 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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    Picture Taken: Unknown
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