Kind reader Joanna sent me some photo's of Rose Cottage (taken in approx. 2021), the cottage in Irene Soper's garden. It used to serve as a home, lastly for herbalist and writer Juliette de Bairacli-Levy. I had never seen a photo of the interior of the cottage, so I was very excited to get one. Thank you very much Joanna!
20-3-2025 I have added the information Joanna sent me:
'The
author and herbalist Juliette de Bairalcli Levy lived in this Rose
Cottage at Abbots Well in the New Forest for three years soon after the
birth of her second child in Spain in 1954. Her memoir Wanderers in the
New Forest was published in 1958 with a foreword by the painter Augustus
John. After visiting John’s former Fryern Court home and studio at
Fordingbridge, I went to meet the late Arthur and Irene Soper who owned
the cottage property. They were lovely, telling many stories
about Abbots Well, showing me the interior of the cottage, the
wonderful spring where Juliette, neighbors and ponies drank the clear
cold water, and Latchmore Brook.'
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