Historical site in Panmure by Celeste

The Panmure cottage was built back in the 19th century.

It was relocated because the cottage used to be where Mcdonalds. Mount Wellington Mcdonalds is now opposite of Saint Patricks School in Panmure.

The Panmure cottage has been here for generation after generation. We maintain the cottage because it has a lot of precious things in it. In the cottage, there is a room where they storage their tools and they also wash their laundry in there. There is also a fireplace with coal in it. The children had a chalkboard at the cottage that they use for their writing.

There are wonderful people that look after that cottage and their names are Josephine and Angela. In the cottage there were no toilets so they had to dig a hole. There is also a attic room but you don’t pull down the stairs because the stairs are part of the sructure of the house for you to walk up. In one of the bedrooms in the attic, there is a bed and a couple of rocking chairs inside it. The bedrooms were made for the people that used to live in the cottage. There was a volcanic rock bomb and a gold rock that was collected at that time. There is a shaving pan so when the men woke up they can use a knife to shave their beard and clean it offin the shaving pan. In the kitchen  there is old furniture like the old typewriter, old irons and an old dining table. They also had a bedpan that you can use at night time. They used to wear a kitchen gown when they wash their laundry. They also have rocking chairs for the women to knit something to use.

In the room where they storage all their tools there is a long saw to cut down trees. If you break something in that cottage you cannot replace that. All the furniture is not to be touched because they are things from the past.

The cottage was rebuilt carefully so that it is safe for people to live in. The good things about is that cottage is that there is also a rail for you to use when you walk up and down the stairs so that it is safe.

The Panmure cottage is very important because it is part of the history of Panmure and it symbolises the culture and the identity of this place.