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The rock houses of England's last cave people


Over centuries, caves in Kinver, Staffordshire, are turned into rock houses by families.

Across several centuries, dozens of different families made their home among what began as a couple of sandstone caves in picturesque Kinver Edge, a high heath with views for miles. At the height of their appeal, hundreds of visitors from across the West Midlands and further afield came across these modern "cave people" before the number of inhabitants dwindled and their rock homes became abandoned. In an interview with the National Trust before her death, Margaret Handley, born in Kinver in 1911, described how she helped her aunt and uncle with the teas in the 1920s.

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