Items dug up West Street garden in 1980's and 1990"s

From Remnantz kitchen garden, a small selection

Glass bottle stoppers, from Remnantz Kitchen garden and under former tennis courts there

Above, some of very many clay pipe stems to be found in West Street gardens when digging. 

Above, found West street garden, adjacent Remnantz. Dated 1724. 

 Some of the broken clay pipe stems still smelt of tobacco. Someone lost a lot of keys! There were several lockable gates and doors leading from one part of the garden to another, as well as those giving entry to outbuildings such as the dairy and the numerous side entrances. You would need 23 keys alone to cover all of the above! If you add in house keys...

To read about Stephen Remnant who most likely gave his name to the house see the post here

And life for the cadets at Royal Military Academy junior branch here

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