Culver farm, listed in the Doomsday Book, was
of particular personal interest. I knew the owner of the farmhouse,
an elderly gentleman in his 80s who sold the cottage and associated
buildings to move into a more modern, 1920s, terraced house and agreed
that I could photograph the cottage before it was sold. It was eventually
sold to a property developer who planed to "restore" it considerably
but unfortunately it caught fire late one night and was damaged beyond
repair so had to be demolished. Fortunately I photographed the cottage
quite extensively before the fire. |