Rosie Hendry

Historical Fiction Author

A home with a difference

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The house at Orchard Farm, in Secrets and Promises, is no ordinary home. It’s made from old railway carriages! This style of house was a way to build a home cheaply and were common in Norfolk, especially after WW1.

I visited the North Norfolk Railway’s fabulous railway cottage for research. The beautiful, bottle-green house is made from one old railway carriage and has been set up to re-create how it would have been in 1935. 

Railway Cottage
You can see the railway carriage (on the left) and extension (on the right).

In Secrets and Promises, Bessie’s and Harry’s home is bigger, made from two carriages, joined end to end, plus an extension built on the back, but otherwise very similar this one. 

Main living area in the extension part of the house – look through the windows to a bedroom in the railway carriage.
Kitchen sink in extension.
Bedroom with windows looking back into main room.
Looking outside through bedroom carriage windows.

Secrets and Promises is out on 6th April and available now to pre-order at:

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