Fairies in the bottom of my garden

Oh my goodness those little fairy houses are so wonderful. So much detail, beautiful. Oh my goodness, your fairy houses are so beautiful! Just love these fairy houses Anne! Love the detail. What do you think about making one with a round Hobbity door??

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright — and Frances Griffiths — , two young cousins who lived in Cottingley , near Bradford in England. In , when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas edition of The Strand Magazine. Doyle, as a spiritualist , was enthusiastic about the photographs, and interpreted them as clear and visible evidence of psychic phenomena.