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Eastbridge Road, ROMNEY MARSH, TN29 0PG

Seen from the other side of Marshland Sewer.

One of the very few remaining Looker's Huts, this one is in reasonable condition.

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. Unfortunately Mark Duncan’s Image taken 8 years ago, now appears to be almost unrecognisable. 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 This is one of the huts he mentions in the book.

South-bound train approaching on R.H.& D.R.

After the dust and smoke settle....