Day 159 - Today we visited some rock houses at Kinver Edge that are owned by the National Trust. Kinver Edge is home to the last troglodyte dwellings occupied in England, with a set of complete cave-houses excavated into the local sandstone which were inhabited until the 1960's they had no running water, plumbing or power.
Kinver rock houses are fascinating, I'm a Midlander and first visited Kinver as a child and some of dwellings at that time were still occupied. I guess I would have been about 9 or 10 So about 1956.
@anniesue They were apparently lived in from around the 1700's as caves and then through time they were converted into houses @jeanniec57 They were great and only by chance that I found them to go and visit them @momamo The whole history of the land and how it became to be was interesting @susiemc I'm sure the grandchildren will love them, there's also gardens and woods to investigate as well @chrisiow I'm so glad we rejoined the National Trust before we went to Birmingham as I wouldn't have looked in the handbook and found them. It must have been a lovely experience actually seeing them lived in!
June 11th, 2019
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@jeanniec57 They were great and only by chance that I found them to go and visit them
@momamo The whole history of the land and how it became to be was interesting
@susiemc I'm sure the grandchildren will love them, there's also gardens and woods to investigate as well
@chrisiow I'm so glad we rejoined the National Trust before we went to Birmingham as I wouldn't have looked in the handbook and found them. It must have been a lovely experience actually seeing them lived in!