Woodbine Cottage (Grade 2 Listed)
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1. Woodbine Cottage
2. Woodbine Cottage with Albert George Gardiner's children outside - Phyllis, Austin, Winnie, Kathleen and baby Ella on the wall.
3. Woodbine Cottage
Woodbine Cottage is a Grade 2 Listed Building in The National Heritage List for England, an extract from its description, taken from the listing details, is as below.
Description
Detached house. Mid-late C17; early C18 rebuilding. Random rubble and dressed limestone; ashlar, artificial stone and rendered chimneys; stone slate roof, concrete tile to rear. Two- storey with attic.
Owners and Occupiers :
Identified in Lloyd George Survey 1910 as cottage 424 ,
“Woodbine Cottage” Description: Stone and tile cottage: attic, 2 bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen and pantry, stone and tile washhouse,loft over,lean-to galvanised shed, EC, lean-to greenhouse, stone and tile workshop,loft over, stone and tile pigsty, garden
Owner 1910 : Albert George Gardiner
Occupier 1910 : Albert George Gardiner
1911 Census: Gardiner Albert George, Head, 38, b.1873 Bisley; Sonemason Marian A , Wife, 34, b.1877 Bisley Phyllis, daughter, 11,b.1900 Bisley; School Ada, daughter, 10, b.1901 Bisley; School Austin, son, 7, b.1904 Bisley; School Winifred, daughter, 5, b.1906 Bisley; School Kathleen, daughter, 11m, b.1911 Bisley
1939/40 War Inventory: Albert George Gardiner and daughters Edris, Averil, Ella
Bill Pankhurst, Village Blacksmith and current Owner Remembers, 26th March 2015 :
My family connection goes back four generations. Bill's greatgrandfather, Eli Gardiner, the thatcher, rented the property. Bill's grandfather, Albert George Gardiner bought it. Albert Gardiner was a stonemason, but he had a side line in photography. Many of the photos of Oakridge in the 1900s are taken by him. He took commissions for family groups as well as taking views. He not only had a camera but developed his own photos. He had eight children and all moved out except Edris who stayed to care for her father. She married Ted Pankhurst in 1947 and they lived there. Albert George died in 1958. When Edris died in 2010 she was still living in the house in which she was born.
History Group Note on the Photograph of the Gardiner children at Woodbine Cottage
The 1911 census gives the family in Woodbine Cottage as Albert George (Head), stonemason and wife of 12 years Marian Al Margaret?, with Phyllis (age11 ), Ada (age 10), Austin (age 7), Winifred (age 5) and Kathleen (age 11months)
[Is Ada the Cissy noted on the back of the photo? In previous census 1901 there is Phyllis age 1 and Ada age 7]
Woodbine cottage, owned and occupied by Albert G Gardiner, is described a year earlier in the Lloyd George Survey as a stone and tile cottage with attic, 2 bedrooms, sitting room, kitchen, pantry, stone and tile washhouse, loft over, lean-to galvanised shed, earth closet, lean-to greenhouse, stone and tile workshop, loft over, stone and tile pigsty, garden.
During WW2 Albert G Gardiner was still living there with daughters Edris, Averil and Ella according to the War Inventory.
Albert George Gardiner, born 1873 was the son of Eli Gardiner, thatcher, and his wife Charlotte. In the 1881 census he had 3 brothers, Walter, Hollis and Sydney and one sister, Bertha. In 1891 Albert was a general labourer.
Austin Gardiner appears playing the violin in the photo from Oakridge Flower Show in 1953 shown elsewhere. He became well known for his woodwork and the History Group has a couple of pieces in the Museum.
Ella Gardiner appears in the photo of the W. I.
Bizzie and Sylvia
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http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1091238
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