Narrow Bridge Cottages were on the bend in the road to Trent Lock, between the road and the footbridge over the Erewash Canal. The cottages dated from the early 19th century, or earlier. There seem to have been 2 large cottages by the bridge and another 6 cottages in a row by the bend road. Originally, they were mostly in Sawley Parish, but from 1921 they were taken over by Long Eaton, along with the rest of New Sawley. In 1900 there was a typhoid outbreak at the cottages. It was attributed to drinking water, but the Sawley Parish Council was told that the property was ‘in a very insanitary condition’. In 1901 the Council heard about an overflowing cesspit at Narrow Bridge Cottages. Although the owner, Mr Tingle, replied that he had just spent £40 on improvements. The houses had been owned for many years by the Tingle family, who’d been boatbuilders. Although in 1904 six houses (presumably the terrace) were advertised for sale as copyhold (a sort of freehold) but don’t seem to have sold. In May 1905 the body of a newborn baby was found in the canal nearby, wrapped in brown paper. Twenty years earlier, the […]
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