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| History of Old Codgers Cottage in the Lake District | | 7 Nov 2009 |  | Old Codgers Cottage was built in 1847 ,we believe for the Furness Railway
Workers and after doing some research into the census’ of those days we
have discovered that in those times the residential parish was called
Applethwaite and Windermere was then called Birthwaite. In the 1850s the railways were beginning to be established in England and the cottages were built to support local railway workers. Our research shows that the architect involved was Augustus Pugin who was a personal friend of the railway owners and he helped with the design of the cottages as a personal favour. Augustus Pugin was more famously known for being a London Architect which included the commission of Westminster Abbey. When the railway arrived to promote the tourism of this stunning area key workers were accommodated in the railways own property. The railway offered a horse and cart service from the station to the lake
Old Codgers cottage was built for the head horseman, next door (No3 ) , we
understand was for the station master as the property is slightly larger
Obviously prestige was important in those days.
Our Research
It was inhabited in 1901 by George Robinson and his wife Barbara and three
children.
George was a carter, presumably for the railway company. Going back even
further to 1871, the cottage was inhabited by John Coward and his wife
Agnes, who also was a Carter Drayman. They had a lodger , 3 daughters and
a son all living in the premises.
Our research ended here because around the time of the 1861 census we
found that a lot of the building work was started to take place so street
names were not important until the development of the town, during this
busy period of construction it was quite funny that the person doing the
census just called nearly all the streets “new street”
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