Girdle Cake Cottage

Approximate location / Grid Reference: NZ31486 54212

Google Maps: approximate location: 54.88169,-1.510776

1911: 1911 census: Grear Batey, aged 74, married, born Ireland

Girdle (or "Girdley") Cake Cottage was formerly known as Ferry Boat House and given to the Drummond family by Sir Nicholas Lambton.

Above: Girdle Cake Cottage, 1920

Above: Girdle Cake Cottage on the north bank of the river Wear, looking down-river (east)

Above: Girdle Cake Cottage seen from the river

Above: Girdle Cake Cottage, looking east

Above: oil painting of Girdle Cake Cottage by Johnson Hedley, 1912

Above: oil painting of Girdle Cake Cottage by Francis Harold Cecil Drinkwater, 1899

Above: Girdle Cake Cottage, date and artist unknown

Above: Shields Daily Gazette, May 12, 1904

Above: Shields Daily News, August 12, 1907

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, September 27, 1910

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, February 8, 1913

Above: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, July 3, 1913

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, October 10, 1917

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette January 21, 1932

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, April 15, 1932

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, April 19, 1932

Above: Dundee Evening Telegraph, April 27, 1932

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, June 24, 1932

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, July 27, 1933

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, August 17, 1933

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, January 12, 1934

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, April 6, 1934

Above: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, May 4, 1934

Above: Newcastle Journal February 27, 1945