It is Sedge Lynn where the Booths lived for the last two decades of the century. The area is still fairly open and the building in the distance behind the house is the Lloyds built in 1870. From their backrooms they would have had an interrupted view across the Isles to Longford Hall just a little obscured by a row of trees and to their right and left were farms. As such they must have been a cut above the farm labourers and farmers who were their immediate neighbours.
And so it stood in splendid isolation.
Few details of the house have survived except that it had 11 rooms excluding a kitchen and bathroom. I do not even have a date for its construction. Despite the worn appearance of the front wall and gate I doubt that it had been up for more than a decade but the census evidence is in conclusive, so the best at present is to say that it was built sometime between the 1840s and very early 1880s.
But it was a fine Victorian house. I particularly like the wooden blinds at the windows along with the fine heavy curtains. This was a solid house for a solid family. And that family is slowly coming out of the shadows.
Picture; from the Lloyd collection
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