Hi Shirley There is a photo on google earth of the "Railway Cottages" it looks as if they are quite old Regards Bazzer Portchester Fareham Hampshire ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley McHutchison" <smchutchison@totalise.co.uk> To: <eng-ham-portsmouth-gosport@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Railway Cottages Port Creek > Thanks to David, Kate and Peter for more information on my Port Creek > Cottages query.It would be good to confirm if they were the actual ones my > ancestors lived in or possibly helped build . They were definitely living > there between 1850 and 1858. Their children were baptised at Wymering > parish > church and sadly two of them died when living there. > Thanks again > Shirley > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Stoddard" <peter.stoddard@ntlworld.com> > To: <ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:50 PM > Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Railway Cottages Port Creek > > >> Hello Shirley, >> >> I don't know if anyone has replied to this but I think the cottages are >> still there and should be visible using Google Earth in the area of the >> railway triangle, Port Creek at Highbury, Cosham. In those days Wymering >> was bigger and more important than Cosham? >> >> Regards >> >> Peter >> >>> My grt grt grandfather Arthur GEORGE and his family lived during the >>> 1850's at the S E Line Cottages at Port Creek Junction Wymering. Can >>> anyone tell me exactly where they would have been? I suppose it is too >>> much to expect them to be still there?!! He was a railway labourer then >>> but later moved back to Havant where he was born and was then a sawyer. >>> Thanks >>> Shirley McHutchison >>