Item 36 - Christmas card of a view of Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire reproduced from a water-colour by Sir Brian Batsford, a Vice-President of the Society

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Christmas card of a view of Arlington Row, Bibury, Gloucestershire reproduced from a water-colour by Sir Brian Batsford, a Vice-President of the Society

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Arlington Row dates from the 14th century, originally bult as a wool store it was converted into cottages for weavers in the 17th century. Arlington Row was rescued by the Society during its campaign for the Preservation of Ancient Cottages. In 1927 the owner of the Bibury cottages, unable to keep them, and their beautiful slate roofs, in repair, offered them to the Society for a comparatively small sum. Much more help was needed to repair them but the money was raised through a subscription fund headed by an American James Hazen Hyde. The donor's conditions that the rents should not be raised and that the exisitng tenants remain undisturbed were faithfully kept and in Septmeber 1930 the cottages, fully restored under the direction of Mr P Morley Horder, were formally handed over to the keeping of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Trust. In 1949 the property was made over to the National Trust. Speaking at the Annual General Meeting of the campaign in 1929, G K Chesterton described the Society's attitude in saving such ancient dwellings: 'Look, here is a definite creation of man made under more normal, more dignified and more sane social conditions. It is like a Greek temple surviving in an age of barbarians.... This belongs to the history of humanity' Image of the tablet erected by the Society on reverse of card. 59,250 copies sold.

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      Creator Victoria 22/12/1998

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