These former Game Keepers cottages overlook the parkland of the Wynyard Estate. c1998.
We believe the cottages were renovated into one and now known as Oak Tree Cottage.
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These former Game Keepers cottages overlook the parkland of the Wynyard Estate. c1998.
We believe the cottages were renovated into one and now known as Oak Tree Cottage.
The two cottages on The Avenue, in the first of the two photos, were occupied (certainly from the 1940s; probably earlier) by Herbert Tinkler – Stud Groom and Baden (not Bayden as often seen) Barnard. Herbert was my grandfather and we lived there with my grandparents for many years.
I remember baydon he served the drinks in the club his favourite saying was your mother had to wait so you will to
My grandparents lived in one of the Almshouses. Probably early to late Fifties. No inside bathroom. A shared toilet in the back lane. Two rooms and a scullery. Big, black old fashioned range in the living room. Before that they lived at Sunderland Lodge on the Wynyard estate.
I knew the Wynyard and Kennels well in the 60’s as I went out with George Douglas’s daughter for some time until National Service intervened and we sadly lost touch.
At Stockton Grammar in the mid-fifties one of the lads in my year was Jim Cockburn who, I was told, was the son of one of the gamekeepers at Wynyard. I last heard of Jim as a legal academic somewhere in the USA. Does anyone know whether he was actually a gamekeeper’s son?
Hello,
This is Jim’s daughter, and his grandad was the gamekeeper.
Dad moved to the US, passed in 2010.
Thank you for remembering him.
When I was leaving school my father sent me up to the Kennels in the off chance there was any gamekeeping jobs. My father knew George Douglas the head gamekeeper. I never got a job in gamekeeping but I still love the countryside around Wynard Estate and walk my dog around the Grindon Loop most days.
These two photographs are of different rows of cottages. The front view is The Avenue, I lived in one of the cottages until 1986. These were the gardeners cottages (or Bothy), the game keepers had a similar row (rear view photo) of dwellings known as ‘Kennels’ elsewhere on the Wynyard estate. The house looking down the lane towards the camera was the old dairy, next to that (to the right) was the gardeners communal reading and billiard room, later occupied by Lady Londonderry’s mother. The old walled garden where the occupants of these cottages worked is just out of shot to the left of the old dairy building
I lived in one of the kennel cottages as a gamekeeper and knew George Douglas well. Yes the pictures are of avenue not kennels