The old Blind Man's Gate gatekeeper cottage
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The old Blind Man's Gate gatekeeper cottage
Image: © Jon Crawford Taken: 13 Apr 2001
My grandparents lived here for over 50 years alongside the East Suffolk line. This old building, a traditional cottage for the line with its roof-diamond, is very close to the line as I well remember - those class 37s running from Lowestoft to Liverpool Street would wake anything when they rumbled past... The furthest window was a bedroom window and yes, you had to be a sound sleeper to stay there! The building was knocked down in the early 2000s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.456978
Longitude
1.658154