Reply To: Anyone recognize this house?

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James Ferris
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Rear inscription handwritten on the back of the photo – “This is a picture of the house in which your great-grandmother and grandfather lived when your maternal grandmother and grandfather were married. They lived there for awhile, and then went into their own house.” I believe the note was written to my grandmother, possibly sometime in the 1950’s. Her grandparents were Thomas Liddle and Ann Armstrong, married 1870; in the 1871 census, they lived with Ann’s parents, James Armstrong & Ann Summers, in Hexham at 2 Skinnerburn. It could very well not be Hexham, but the bones of the story line up – although the picture certainly doesn’t look like any of the ones on Eastgate, and if the inscription was written 70 years after the fact, it’s quite possible some facts may have been confused.