![The cottage in the 1930s when Tom Lake the milkman there.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A1/3594860453.jpg?resize=640%2C405)
The cottage in the 1930s when Tom Lake the milkman there.
![Alf Pearce[L] and Fred Handscombe [R]repairing the cottage.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A2/1489645638.jpg?resize=640%2C448)
Alf Pearce[L] and Fred Handscombe [R]repairing the cottage. The work revealed old beams which had been plastered over in earlier years.
![The house was divided into 2 cottages.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A3/2489331928.jpg?resize=640%2C958)
The house was divided into 2 cottages.
![The fence divided the garden of the cottages.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A4/2661628353.jpg?resize=640%2C937)
The fence divided the garden of the cottages.
![The house was divided from the bakery and farmyard by a wall.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A5/1376729439.jpg?resize=640%2C358)
The house was divided from the bakery and farmyard by a wall.
![The house was extended and modernised in the 1970s by the Grooms.](https://i0.wp.com/pirtonhistory.org.uk//wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/28sr-A6/3699392188.jpg?resize=640%2C435)
The house was extended and modernised in the 1970s by the Grooms.