Showing posts with label cottage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cottage. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Marieberg

Marieberg Marieberg Nedre Marieberg Marieberg
I'm guessing these old buildings at Marieberg in Fors, Västerhaninge will be gone soon. For many years the property was hidden behind a little forest. But the trees have now been cut down and as the new owner is a builder chances are that we will see something new here soon. Marieberg has a well documented history thanks to Sune Nilsson. He was born in the red cottage and his family and several generations of his family have lived here. Sune was only four years old when he moved out from Marieberg but half a century later he started researching his family history and if you understand the local lingo you can read more at haninge.org. Here and here.

Friday, November 16, 2018

Yours if you have a hammer!

Yours if you have a hammer!
A one bedroom house. No windows. No kitchen, no bathroom, no running water, no heating, no nothing really, but there's a roof and that's a good thing, yes? But the estate does have a nice name, so welcome to Björkhagen in rural Österhaninge.

Thursday, November 01, 2018

The bookbinders cottage

The bookbinders cottage
Many years ago a bookbinder called Ragnar Numan worked in this cottage or"enkelstuga" at Fors in Haninge. His wife Sigrid Numan was a very talented photographer. Her ICA camera from 1926 has been donated to the local historical association and can be seen at Tingshuset in Västerhaninge. The couple lived in a nearby building called Gästgiveriet.

Friday, March 17, 2017

After The Paintball

After The Paintball
For a few year you could play paintball at this property along Årstahavsbadsvägen in Österhaninge. It was quite popular, never tried it myself but I often saw people here. Now it looks like the paintball people have moved on to a new location in another forest in Jordbro and pretty much just left this one to itself. So I decided to have a closer look. You would probably have to be the worlds best real estate broker to sell this property now. Although I could give them a little help. It is very close to the beach and even closer to a couple of golf courses. If you are heading out to the archipelago the ferry port is also close. There's a lot of forest to walk in if you like that sort of thing. The closest malls are also just a short drive away. Any takers?

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Still There

Still There
Remember that little house that I fought to save? Eight months later, (sadly), it is still there. They didn't have enough time (and money perhaps), to save the whole building. At least that is what they told me. They removed the windows and a few other details worth saving and then just left it like this. The builders were coming they said. Three new houses would be built here in the early Spring. That was the story back in March. It is now mid July and absolutely nothing has happened here.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Rural Living

Rural Living
These are the old cottages on the property I showed you yesterday, with the collapsed carriage house. The couple I talked to live in a more modern house. This is the view from the carriage house. All you can see from the road is the blooming shrubs. No idea how "modern" the cottages are on the inside but walking around here I could easily see myself living here. Getting up early on a Summer morning, enjoying breakfast outdoors, hearing nothing but birdsong, before jumping on the bike for the 15 minute ride to the beach. The couples son lives in one house and another relative in the other cottage.

Monday, March 21, 2016

The teacher

Jörgen Arnstad Saved!
This is Jörgen Arnstad. A teacher from the Fredrika Bremer secondary school in Handen. He is currently working at the little cottage at Malmvägen that I wrote a petition about and managed to save from demolition. Jörgen and a couple of his students have been busy today with the deconstruction of the interior of the cottage. Next week they will try to move the building to the schools property at the Jordbro industrial area. The plan is to rebuild it there and then, if possible move it to Skutans gård in Handen. If you understand the local lingo you can read more about Jörgens work here. I took the collage photos inside the cottage yesterday.

Friday, March 04, 2016

Steffe's Cottage

lillahuset Old Style Window Glass
Here is an update about the little red cottage at Malmvägen in Handen that I was hoping to save from the bulldozers. I wrote about it last November. Two weeks ago there was an article in the local paper Mitti, about my idea. The house is a century old, the only one of his kind in Handen, and was built by American timber. A few more people are involved in the project now. I got a call from my friend Sune Nilsson at the local historical association, Haninge hembygdsgille. He had discussed the idea with people from the Fredrika Bremer secondary school, the municipality and the building company and they had all paid the house a visit, and everyone seems to think that it might be worth saving. If the house, (now known as Steffes stuga), is to be saved, it has to be done very quickly as two of the tree new houses to be built here have already been sold and the new owners are supposed to move in during the Spring. One idea is to cut up the house in four pieces, move it to somewhere were it can be stored for a while, and then maybe rebuild it at the old village in the Tyresta national park. It will of course cost a pretty penny but hopefully that is a cost that is affordable for everyone involved.

Friday, November 13, 2015

A Future Museum?

The last of its kind A little red house
This is a very tiny house. At Malmvägen in central Handen. Been a few years since someone lived here. They don't make places like this any more. Today it is surrounded on all sides by newer, bigger houses. Sadly I don't know any history about it, and it will be gone very soon as a developer have announced that three new homes will be built on this property next year. After uploading these photos to flickr I wrote a short e-petition at the municipality democracy portal where I suggested that the local trade school Fredrika Bremer-gymnasiet would make this into a little school project. They could move the little house to the school (just a few hundred meters from here), renovate it and make it into a little museum about days gone by. The petition went live a couple of hours ago and hopefully enough local people will see it and agree with my idea. I also need to figure out where the museum should be placed if the idea became a reality and one funky idea that came to mind was to place it on the roof of the City Hall building!

Friday, January 24, 2014

The old smithy

Winter-Midday-Light

I just realised that I have published nearly 30 photos of the old smithy at the Nödesta farm. So I guess it's time to make a set of all those photos. I shot this latest photo a couple of days ago. The building was not just a smithy, day laborers also lived here, and there was a laundry in the basement. Today it is used as a warehouse.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Misty Morning

The Cottage
Time for another look at the cottage. I have shown it to you before as it is one of the places at the Nödesta farm in Nedersta that I try to document from time to time. I always try to get a different composition and was helped here by Autumn leaves and morning mist.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The Cottage

The Cottage
I showed you the stable at the Nödesta farm a couple of days ago. This is the other building that I enjoy shooting from different angels. The old cottage.

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Cottage in the Mist

The Cottage
A little red cottage at the 700 year old Nödesta farm. I have shown you many photos from Nödesta over the years and here is another one.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

A summer house

The old Cottage I think yesterday was the warmest day of the year. Grace in Perth will of course laugh when I say that it was very warm (25C), when I decided to go for a little photo promenade around Tungelsta. This is Hagstugan at Skogs Ekeby. Three hundred years ago the foreman at the farm lived here. Today it is a summer house. For a much colder and winter like view of this cottage press here.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Stepping back in time

Little bit of the old days A Little Red Cottage A century ago Handen was a rural place with a few big farms. All the farms are if not gone, at least not in use any more. Today Handen is a modern urban area with a couple of big malls, a hospital, one or two industrial zones, many large apartment buildings as well as many family sized houses. And if you jump on the commuter train you are only a fifteen minute ride away from central Stockholm. So that is why I was a bit surprised to learn about the existence of this little red cottage at Malmvägen. It doesn't look like anyone live there, which is a bit of a shame I think. It is as central as you can get. You can walk to the hospital in under three minutes, and it is not more than a five minute stroll from the big mall which in itself is next to the commuter station.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

A Little Cottage

Green Entrance
I enjoy visiting old farms and cottages. Some of the photos I shoot will end up in the archives at the local historical association in Haninge. This visit was totally by chance. From the bike I chatted with another cyclist. When he told me that he owned Westerfors, a little cottage at Fors near Västerhaninge I asked him if I could tag along for a photo shot. Christer inherited the property from an uncle. He uses it as a summer house. The place has an interesting history. It is said that the old farm house was destroyed in a fire back in 1719 when the Russians attacked, but it is hard to find the evidence for that. If it is true the building here dates back to around 1720. I had a look inside, and Christer told me that the house have undergone many changes in the last centuries. Back in 1884 Anna Sofia Lindblom, a young girl who grew up at Westerfors marries the boy from the neighbouring farm Skarplöt and the two farms become one for a long time. I visited that farm last summer. For many years this place was also known as the Shoemaker's place, as a shoemaker from Norway, Lauritz Rasmussen lived here. More facts and photos in the slideshow.

Monday, December 19, 2011

A Sudden Change in the Weather

A Sudden Change in the Weather

It has snowed a few times in the last couple of days. At the moment a very thin layer of the white stuff is covering the ground. This is a cottage at the Hammar Estate.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

A Former Museum

A Former Museum

This little cottage at the Hammar estate in Tungelsta was built by a great-great grandparent to the current owner Charlotte. He was a man that sailed with one of the Swedish East India Company ships to India and China nearly two hundred years ago. On the first two trips he brought home many items, and to have a place to store and show them he decided to build this little museum. Sadly he died during his third expedition to Asia. After posting this photo at flickr one of my Swedish readers in the US told me that a relative of his was the captain on one of these ships. Small world.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Mousetrap

Råttfällan

As a member of the historical association I am sometimes asked to photograph old cottages for upcoming books. This is one such place. This property dates back to 1741. The name is a bit unusual. It is called The Mousetrap or Råttfällan in Swedish. It is located at Alby, a rural part of Haninge. The story behind the name is that there once lived a boatswain here who hated rats and he apparently made a lot of mousetraps. That same legend also says that he made traps for roe deers and elks! On my visit I had a lengthy chat with the current owner Mr. Svanäng. He is a retired farmer who has lived her for eleven years.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Summer vs. Winter

Winter in Sweden

Håkanstorp

This cottage in Tungelsta is known as Håkanstorp, or Håkstorp. It dates back to 1690. It is located on a hill near the Haga farm, that I showed you in a slideshow last summer. Håkstorp is mentioned in one of Ivar Lo Johansson's auto-biographies. The famous author lived down the road at Djurgårdsgrind when he was a school boy. One day he visits the cottage and buys his first ever rifle, from the blacksmith Anders Peter Andersson, that lived here 90 years ago. In the book Johansson describes how he spends the night at Lake Tornberga hoping to shoot something. In the end he kills a grouse.