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From Bombs to Buckets, Dora Tack (1989)

Bank Cottage, Papworth St Agnes

History of Bank Cottage

Bank Cottage, Papworth St Agnes

This is the cottage that Dora Tack moved into with her husband Frank and baby in August 1943. She numbers it 15 on her map.

Dora had previously lived with her mother at Lattenbury Hill.

Later the family would move to Hilton.

1942 The cottage was empty in this year. The tenant had been Miss Alice Poole, retired school mistress of papworth St Agnes School. In 1943 she gave up the tenancy.

It was really two cottages made into one home for the Rossins (13 children) when it was a tied cottage for Passhouse farm.

The cottage on the bank, Bank Cottage, Papworth St Agnes

Passhouse Cottage, Papworth St Agnes (RGL2025)

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