Cartmell Cottage
| Cartmell Cottage | |
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Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust | |
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| Address: | 7 Pioneer Row |
| Built 1850s | |
| Information | |
| Website: | Cartmell Cottage |
Cartmell Cottage stands at 7 Pioneer Street in Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. It is owned by the Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust and maintained to give a display of the changing ways of life in an ordinary cottage of the islands.
The house is a historical treasure in its own right, dating from the early days of the settlement of the Falkland Islands and of the town, which was built from from scratch beginning in 1843. In over a centiury and a half the house has stood while the town grew around it, and today it bears witness to the simpler life lived in past generations.
Within the cottage
The cottage contains three kitchens, not an original triplication but the work of the Trust: one kitchen of the 1850s when the cottage was built, another of the 1940s and finally a 1970s kitchen, with a Rayburn stove, 2-metre radio, record player and the style of curtains that were fashionable in the 1970s.
There is also an equipped pantry beside the 1970s kitchen, displaying original tins and jars of foodstuffs.
Upstairs, the bedrooms are decorated and furnished in 1940s style.