Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — LONDON’S THATCHED COTTAGE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LONDON’S THATCHED COTTAGE.

Quaint and Picturesque Relic Which Is Soon to Be Torn Down. The last thatched cottage in London is about to be torn down. Few Londoners even are aware of the ex-

istence of this quaint relic of a time when life was a much simpler thing than it is to-day. But the almighty pound crushes out sentiment in the modern Babylon just as the almighty dollar does in this country, and as a consequence this unique object will in the near future give place to the ever-extending piles of brick and mortar. The cottage is set in a little hit of country scenery hedged in by the prosaic environment of a London district. It stands on some ground adjoining the disused grave-yard in connection with Paddington Green and adjoins St. David’s Welsh Church. The building consists of two dwellings with rough-cast walls, wooden porches and quaint little windows. The thatd'hed roof is large, and from it peep out several dormer windows. There is a fair-sized piece of ground attached to the cottage, and some trees grow therein, giving it, in a measure, the surroundings which a thatched roof naturally suggests.

LONDON S LAST THATCHED COTTAGE.