The photograph at the top of the page shows Grafton House in Town Yetholm - a recent photograph of the same building can be seen above left. The photographer then seems to have turned round and taken two images of the now-demolished Ivy Cottage: The two images can be crudely joined to given an impression of the wider scene (below - click on the image to see a larger version). The buildings on the right stood behind Tibbie Herbert's cottage. Robert Herbert, Tibbies father, was a mason and ran his own business. He died in 1941 and his business was taken over by Garnet Tice, who at that date lived in Ivy Cottage. The buildings on the right may have been used by Robert as a workshop. The photographer also took an image from much the same spot, looking towards the Morebattle Road. Rose Cottage, on the right, is at this date 'Rose Cafe' and can been seen sporting a traditional style of thatch, rather than the Olde Englishe variety which adorns the house today. Tibbie Herbert's thatched cottage can just be glimpsed on the left. The photographer also went across to Kirk Yetholm, although the only image taken there can be seen below. It is rather over-exposed, but it shows the cottage which once stood immediately outside the Kirk gates. All the other cottages in this row were in a derelict state at this date, largely being utilised as garage space, but this one is relatively spruce, with new windows in the roof: Unfortunatley, probably soon after the photograph above was taken, this cottage too, like Tibbie Herbert's, was burned to the ground and then demolished. The site (left) is now a rough car park for church goers and others to use. Most of the rest of the row of cottages still stand, but are as derelict as they were in the 1950s.
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