Cooks' Cottage
Yorkshire farmhouse built by an explorer's parents, dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt in a colonial garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cooks' Cottage in Melbourne starts with a twist: the explorer it's named for almost certainly never spent a night inside it. It traces how James Cook's parents built the house in Yorkshire in 1755, and how an Australian businessman named Russell Grimwade spotted it for sale in 1933 and talked the seller into letting it leave England altogether, despite an insistence that it stay put. From there the guide follows the odd logistics of moving an entire house across the world for Melbourne's centenary.
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