Residential Archives | Heritage Underground - A History of Root Cellars in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Spence Root Cellar in Brigus, Newfoundland.

The Memory Store: The root cellar – that is built heritage…..

[Music] [Image of Don Johnson and Terra Barrett standing in front of a hillside root cellar] [Don Johnson standing outside of a hillside root cellar] Don Johnson: The […]

The Memory Store: All the doors face east…

[Music] [Image of Don Johnson and Terra Barrett standing in front of a hillside root cellar] [Don Johnson standing inside the doorway of a hillside root cellar] Don […]

The Memory Store: Babies came from here…

[Music] [Image of Don Johnson and Terra Barrett standing in front of a hillside root cellar] [Don Johnson standing inside the doorway of a hillside root cellar] Don […]

The Memory Store: Huge, built like a motorboat…

[Music] [Image of Don Johnson and Terra Barrett standing in front of a hillside root cellar] [Don Johnson standing outside of a hillside root cellar] Don Johnson: Well […]

The Memory Store: Root Cellar Capital of the World

[Music] [Image of Don Johnson and Terra Barrett standing in front of a hillside root cellar] [Don Johnson standing inside the doorway of a hillside root cellar] Don […]

Above Ground Hatch Cellar

Exterior of this rare type of root cellar from Change Islands, Newfoundland. The hatch door shown in the previous photograph is not visible in the grass in this […]

Harbour Grace Root Cellar

This root cellar is owned by the Ryan family in Harbour Grace, Conception Bay. It has a stone and concrete foundation with a wooden roof. Iron railroad tracks […]

French’s Cove Root Cellar, Bay Roberts

Dry-stacked rock root cellar foundations in French’s Cove, Bay Roberts.

Mobile Root Cellar

This hillside root cellar has a stone wall interior and a deep, 3.5 metre, entrance into the cellar. Built in circa 1860 by Scottish immigrant, John Kennedy, the […]

Potato Garden, Trinity

Potato garden in flower, Trinity, Trinity Bay, with the Hiscock House Provincial Historic Site in the background.

Lamswood Root Cellar Potato Pounds

Potatoes stored in pounds inside Bill Lamswood’s root cellar in Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. This root cellar was originally built in the 1850s by Richard Squires and is still in […]