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OLD WEST SURREY 



here is old Bowbrick's portrait as he looked in church. He 

 used to sit on a narrow bench at the foot of a column just 

 opposite our pew, and his picture was done from 

 recollection when I was about fourteen. He 

 was nearly bald, and his head was always neatly 

 tied up in a blue cotton handkerchief, and he 

 wore a patch over one blind eye. 



There was a very old cottage in a wood 

 about four miles from this one, since pulled 

 down. When I knew it some additions had been 

 made ; but it was easy to see that the original 

 structure had been a dwelling of the most 

 primitive type ; just one good-sized room, longer 

 than square, with a thatched roof. I am glad to 

 see that there is a picture of it in Mrs. Allingham's ' Happy 

 England ' (No. 4G : 'In Wormley Wood ') — a book of beautiful 



BOWBRICK 



Stone Paving at Cottage Entrance 



pictures, that shows far better than I can attempt to describe, 

 the charm that belongs to these old West Surrey cottages. 



