The Gardeners Cottage
Story and pictures from Gabrielle Taysom, January 2024

138 Cardigan Road was originally part of Braemark, 140 Cardigan Road, and known to the family as the "Gardeners Cottage." My grandparents, Barbara & Fred Ligertwood, used to own Braemark, 104 Cardigan Rd, from around 1954 until around 1963. I have a diagram of the original layout of the buildings. When they lived there the block had two dwellings, plus a building which we called the "summer house".

​The site map includes what we called the "Gardeners Cottage". That cottage had always been known to us as the "Gardeners Cottage", though my grandparents never had a gardener. My family lived in the cottage for a while, but it was a bit small for parents and two kids! ​

Sometime later - well after my grandparents sold - the block was subdivided and one of the residences was hived off with that subdivision to become 138 Cardigan Rd. I notice a more modern house is on that site now, so I don't know the fate of the cottage. ​