This was one of the area's small communities, now lost, as it appeared about 1900 - Sunnydale, above East Morton.

The cottages on the left had been built in conjunction with Sunnydale Mill, part of which can be seen derelict in the background.

Early Victorian Sunnydale Mill manufactured paper for banknotes and better-class stationery, and had been the first in this district to install a Fourdrinier paper-making machine. It was worked by an elaborate system of dams, channels and water-wheels, one of which was claimed to be the largest in the British Isles after that at Laxey in the Isle of Man. By 1878, however, the business was in financial straits and closed down. The mill's rather picturesque ruins were not demolished until 1936.

Originally intended for Sunnydale Mill employees, the cottages remained occupied until the Second World War.

Residents in the 1891 Census comprised worsted workers, a millwright and a caretaker of the mill reservoir, which had been incorporated into the local authority water-works system.

The site of the cottages is said to be still identifiable through plants that once grew in their gardens!