IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
St. Mary In The Marsh, ROMNEY MARSH, TN29 0DB

There is a plaque on the wall midway between the ground floor windows that reads "National School 1871". This is Image before it was converted to a private dwelling.

As it was before it was converted into a private house see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1792180

Lookers were employed to look after a farmer’s stock and these huts provided basic accommodation, which was used at lambing time. The huts had an open fire, on the hearth, over which a kettle or cauldron was hung, on a pot-hook, to provide meals for the shepherd or for heating milk for weak and sickly lambs. The huts would have also had crude sleeping arrangements – probably nothing more than a few boards on which there might have been sacks, stuffed with straw, to act as a mattress. Sanitary arrangements would have been non-existent and any water for cooking would have been obtained from the nearest dyke. His family would come at weekends to spend a day with him, bringing his supplies for the whole week. Nigel P Crick has written an illustrated book called The Lookers’ Huts ISBN 978 1 84624 426 1, which gives the grid reference locations of 16 huts, that can be found on Romney Marsh, as well as a link to his photography business http://www.gallerytwentyone.co.uk It was one of the huts he mentions in the book but, although his photograph tallies those submitted to Geograph, there was a printer’s error as far as the grid reference was concerned. Mark Duncan’s Image, although photographed 8 years ago, looks to be in a similar condition.

One of the few remaining Looker's Huts - this one is in excellent condition.