Yesterday after morning tea we lined up and waited for Mr Bell. We were going to go to the Stone Cottage. A few minutes later Mrs Yumul and Mr Bell came back and we started walking down to the gate. We walked across the pedestrian and walked down to the cottage. A really nice man and lady introduced themselves. They told us that the stone cottage used to be where the Mcdonalds were near Fresh N Save.
After they introduced themselves they welcomed us inside and showed us a tour of the first room. The first room had a very old but pretty lady sitting down on a chair. The lady told us that this was the room where all the men sat down and Drank. On the walls were a few paintings. One of the paintings was drawn by a 13 year old girl. Another portrait was of one of the very first women to arrive here in Panmure.
The next room was a bedroom which had a doll sitting down in a crib next to the bed. The lady showed us a bowl. She asked “ Do any of you know what this is?” we all nodded. She told us it was a potty. There were no toilets in the house so they would have to do their privacy in the potty. The lady showed us old-fashioned clothes and things to shave and things they used to put in their hair/beards.
We walked down the stairs to the kitchen and it looked very different to the kitchens we have now. In the middle there was a fireplace with a glass cabinet on the left corner which had a lot of books inside. In front of the fireplace was a big square table which had a book and a lot of very old artefacts.
The stairs to go upstairs were very steep and the roof wasn’t that tal. Upstairs there were 2 rooms. One was a bedroom and the other room was a room that had really precious artefacts. We all had to split into two groups because we all couldn’t fit in one room all together. The bedroom didn’t have a lot of things inside but there was another doll sitting in a crib on the left side of the bed. On the right side of the room there was a mannequin wearing light pink in front of the window.
The next room had a glass cabinet which had a lot of old-fashioned accessories and things they used to use in the old days but got replaced with modern things. One of the items was a hat. It was a school hat which was black and had no designs. I looked out the window and saw Room 8. We exited the room and went downstairs. I was a bit nervous going down the stairs because it was so steep and I was afraid I was going to miss a step.
We went outside and walked back to school. We all ran back to the canopy and got ready to do some pe.