Description:The house in the background is Laundry Cottage on Smithy Lane, Hixon, so named because the inhabitants used to take in laundry from Broadmore and Chartley Halls.
Living in these cottages in the early 20th century was James Henry Harrison, born in Hopton in 1858, who was a boot maker and repairer who worked from home. His wife Elizabeth Emma was a laundress; she was born in Stoke Prior in Worcestershire.