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1923-24
1923-24
2018
James Gray: Wish Cottage stood in an area of cornfields, market gardens and even brickfields. At the end of the Great War this was largely undeveloped, but early in the 1920s builders started to take over. This photograph looks westwards towards a lone house in Portland Avenue. This is the present No 2 built in 1922 and then known as St. Francis. Most of Portland Avenue was built during 1927 and it was this development which sealed the fate of the Wish Cottage. jgc_16_057
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1923-24
2018
James Gray: A view of the front elevation [of Wish Cottage] and probably the family who lived there. jgc_16_059
2018: This detached house now stands on the site of No 2 Portland Avenue and faces east. (Photographer: Gabrielle Conroy)