Captain Cook's cottage

A view of the front of 'Captain Cook's Cottage' in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. Tall trees surround the back of the cottage. A group of adults and children stand by the railings to the left of the image. The cottage was built in 1755 in Yorkshire, and lived in by Captain Cook's parents. It was sold in 1933 for £800 to Sir Russell Grimwade who had it shipped to Melbourne and reconstructed in time for the State's celebrations in October 1934.

HMS Sussex with the Duke of Gloucester on board arrived at Melbourne on 18 October 1934 to celebrate the centenary of the State of Victoria. He departed on the Sussex on 12 November, arriving in Hobart, Tasmania on 14 November 1934.

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ID:	ALB1214.103
Type:	Photographic print
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	19 October to 11 November 1934
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 89 mm x 139 mm
Parts:	Royal Tour of Duke of Gloucester on HMS Sussex, 1934-1935 (Photograph album) Captain Cook's cottage (Photographic print) (ALB1214.103) A formal photograph of the crew of HMS Sussex (1928) (Photographic print) (ALB1214.119) HMS Sussex's Royal Marine and Maori tug-of-war teams (Photographic print) (ALB1214.158) Waitangi flag staff at Waitangi Treaty Grounds (Photographic print) (ALB1214.162) Four Maori women standing by a vent at Rotorua (Photographic print) (ALB1214.182) A Solomon Islander sitting on the bow of a canoe drawn up on a beach at Faisi. (Photographic print) (ALB1214.229) Four men in a Solomon Island outrigger canoe (Photographic print) (ALB1214.230) A half-length photographic portrait of an Australian Aboriginal woman (Photographic print) (ALB1214.236)

Captain Cook's cottage

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