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'The women did try to keep their houses clean and tidy and neat.They were proud o' what they had, even if it were only a few odd sticks of furniture and one bed. Most o' the families with a lot o' child'en di'nt have enough chairs to go round, and nobody only the father and mother ever sat down to eat a meal. The child'en just stood around the table. The floors, always damp 'ould be covered with rugs pegged from old coats and trousers etc. or with clean sacks, and perhaps a strip o' coco-matting when times begun to get a bit better.
Read more in Fenland Chronicle Page 224
The cottage when it was found.
Today- rescued and renovated
AT THE MUSEUM
Walk through Darlow's Farm Cottage - a typical dwelling built in the early 1930's. The cottage was rescued by the museum from where it was situated- a short walk from the Great Raveley Drain on Woodwalton Fen.
Although Sybil lived in a brick built house, her Aunt Harriet would almost certainly have lived in a cottage similar to this one.
Look for a painting by Ewart Oakeshott ( Sybil married Ewart in 1995).
The garden and a privy have also been conserved.
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