The Main Buildings and Change In Their Use Over Time

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The Main Buildings and Change In Their Use Over Time

The buildings in the surrounding area of the canal will help us find

out how the canal system affected the lives of the people and the

landscape of the villages of stoke bruerne.

The first building I came across was the Brick Built House. This

building is made up of brick and wood. Looking from the front it looks

old and derelict. It is now used as a private house but looks very

abandoned. This building used to be the lock keepers cottage. This

could have been helpful and reliable because it was right near the

locks, however it is not totally reliable because things have changed,

for example the door has been replaced and there was an Ariel on the

roof.

The next building was The Small White Hut. This building is made from

brick and wood and there is plastic guttering. This little hut is now

used as a storage room for British waters, it used to be a leggers

cottage. Leggers were people who laid on the boats and pushed the boat

through the tunnel using there legs and feet. the leggers cottage is

now used as a storage room because leggers are no longer needed as

horsepower replaced them.

The next building was The Boat Inn. The building is made from brick

and glass windows, there are also signs hanging outside the building.

The Boat Inn is now a Pub Restaurant; 150 years ago the Boat Inn was

the same but was also used as a Butchers and Barbershop. The Boat Inn

used to be mainly used by traders, but nowadays is mainly used by the

tourists because over the years a lot of the trade was lost, so there

wasn't a lot of traders' passing through the area to use the Boat Inn.

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... source, it has stayed the same through

the years, and the only change made to the canal was the turning point

for the tourists' day trip boats. The Blisworth tunnel although it has

tried to collapse it has remained the same. All the sources are good

evidence of the past. They are only bad sources of evidence when they

have been changed, for example the lock or the restaurant and bar.

Overall I think Stoke Bruerne Museum was the only place that gave all

the information about the past; this was because it had information

about everything. Although stoke bruerne as a whole was one big

museum, it is not totally reliable because some areas have changed. In

some aspects stoke bruerne is a good source of evidence to find out

about the past, but due to tourism changes it cannot be that reliable

to find out some information.

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