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Claremont Museum > Records

HOUSE RUIN AT BUTLER'S SWAMP

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B/W Copy. Remaining walls of a white stone house with low verandah wall. The central doorway is flanked by window openings and remains of a chimney is visible on the right. In front and to the left of the house is a trellis of bush timber and a light pole. There is rough grass and clumps of sedge in the foreground and behind the house is a wooded slope. Written on the back in blue ink [Old house foot of Gloucester Rd/now demolished./Dec. 1953]

Historical information

Briggs family house at the foot of Gloucester Road. Since demolished. This photograph, with many others, was passed into the museum collection on the retirement of the Town Clerk, Mr Jeffries. Possibly a cottage built by a Pensioner Guard family in the 1850-1860 period.

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