COTTAGES AND FARMS 7 



There still exists at Bramley an old cottage of one room 

 above and one below, the only one I now know in the 

 country. The rooms are ten feet square ; the lower one five 

 feet nine inches to the underside of the joists. The upper 

 room was reached by a step-ladder through an opening in the 



Bowbrick's Cottage 



floor. It now serves as a store to a grocery and provision 

 business, and is a good deal obscured, from the only point 

 from which a photograph can be taken, by a timber erection 

 with corrugated iron roof, in which slaughtered pigs are hung 

 till they are ready to be cut up. 



But I well remember a worthy old couple named Bowbrick 

 who lived in it. This was before the days of photographs, but 



