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£60 Cottages We have been discussing much and with no little heat the building of cheap cottages in English villages. Could we, I wonder, take any hints from Ireland ? Everywhere and any- where you see, beside the old hovels, new cottages set up and, though they are infinitely better than the old (now wholly used as stables and stalls) their cost is less than £100 and may be (I am told) as low as £60. They are not of course imitable, or inimitable. The floors are of concrete, the rooms are three in, number and the type is the bungalow. But they are not bungaloid, not ugly, and generally fit the landscape well, if humbly. They are no blot on the blue hills. Indeed in one glorious—and truthful—poster one admires the picturesqueness of the cottage only less than the colour of the slopes. No greater boon could be promised to our rural communities than the perfecting of a cheap and comely cottage. Perhaps our best and cheapest is to the credit of West Lancashire and, of course, the Sutton Trust.
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