An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping.
I have always been fascinated by Well Hall Cottages which were demolished in 1923 and date from at least the mid 18th century.*
They consisted of six properties just north of Kidbrook Lane and formed a rough L shape with three running west from Well Hall Lane, another two pointing north with a sixth at the rear on the western side.
By 1844 one of the six was occupied by John and Mary Evans. They were in their sixties, he had been born in Wiltshire and she was from Dublin.
Tracking down the other five has been less easy, but judging from the people listed on the census returns for 1841 and ’51 the cottages may have been home to agricultural labourers, a blacksmith and a carpenter.
There are plenty of photographs of the cottages but to my knowledge no paintings of the buildings so it was fitting that Peter should paint them using a coloured picture postcard dating from the early 20th century.
They consisted of six properties just north of Kidbrook Lane and formed a rough L shape with three running west from Well Hall Lane, another two pointing north with a sixth at the rear on the western side.
By 1844 one of the six was occupied by John and Mary Evans. They were in their sixties, he had been born in Wiltshire and she was from Dublin.
Tracking down the other five has been less easy, but judging from the people listed on the census returns for 1841 and ’51 the cottages may have been home to agricultural labourers, a blacksmith and a carpenter.
There are plenty of photographs of the cottages but to my knowledge no paintings of the buildings so it was fitting that Peter should paint them using a coloured picture postcard dating from the early 20th century.
Now I am not a fan of taking a monochrome image and adding colour using a software process, but as Peter has used a postcard which had already been colourized, a very long time ago, my objections fly away.
Painting; Well Hall Cottages © 2015 Peter Topping from a photograph circa early 19th century.
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*Well Hall Cottages, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Well%20Hall%20Cottages
Painting; Well Hall Cottages © 2015 Peter Topping from a photograph circa early 19th century.
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
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*Well Hall Cottages, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Well%20Hall%20Cottages
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