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* [https://www.wansteadwildlife.org.uk/index.php/bush-wood72 Wanstead Wildlife: Bush Wood - introduction] | * [https://www.wansteadwildlife.org.uk/index.php/bush-wood72 Wanstead Wildlife: Bush Wood - introduction] |
Revision as of 14:50, 12 July 2018
[[File:|thumb|right|380px|The Swiss Cottage incorrectly labelled 'Robin Hood's Cabin, Chingford' / Shurey's Publications. Robin Hood's Cabin, Chingford (Fine Art Post Cards) ([s.l.], [s.d.]). Photographic postcard (col.). 133 x 83 mm.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-13. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
The Swiss Cottage was "a timber building which was built around 1850 and stood in a corner of the grounds of Lake House [Bush Wood, Wanstead, Greater London], itself an annexe of Wanstead House. After the present Lake House estate was built, the cottage remained at the edge of Bush Wood and was accessible by a bridge across a ditch or stream".[1] The Swiss Cottage never had anything to do with Robin Hood, but an early 1900s colour postcard published by Shurey's Publications as an inlay in one or more of their novels – the series were entitled Smart Novels, Dainty Novels and Yes or No[2]– showed this cottage mislabelled "Robin Hood's Cottage, Chingford" (see illustration below). The Swiss Cottage was torn down in 1962.[3]
A Google image search (as of 13 Jan. 2018) leaves no doubt that the structure shown on the postcard is in fact the Swiss Cottage.[4]
Sources
- eHive: Postcard of the Swiss Cottage, Bushwood, Leytonstone. Mislabelled "Robin Hood's Cottage
- Google image: swiss cottage bushwood.
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Background
- [Allen, Ron]; [Cole, Andrew]; [Gorman, Mark]; [Boote, David]. The Bushwood Side (Wanstead Flats History Walks, No. 1) (Leytonstone, London, [2010 or later]), p. 5, and map p. 6
- Wanstead Wildlife: Bush Wood - introduction
- Wikipedia: Bushwood Area of Leytonstone.
Notes
- ↑ [Allen, Ron]; [Cole, Andrew]; [Gorman, Mark]; [Boote, David]. The Bushwood Side (Wanstead Flats History Walks, No. 1) (Leytonstone, London, [2010 or later]), p. 5, and map p. 6.
- ↑ Shurey's Publications. Robin Hood's Cabin, Chingford (Fine Art Post Cards) ([s.l.], [s.d.]). Photographic postcard (col.). 133 x 83 mm, dorse.
- ↑ Wanstead Wildlife: Bush Wood - introduction.
- ↑ Google image: swiss cottage bushwood. Also see eHive: Postcard of the Swiss Cottage, Bushwood, Leytonstone. Mislabelled "Robin Hood's Cottage.