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Third World Conditions in The English Countryside.
It is all too easy to look back to the past and remember an idyllic picture of country life and forget how it was in reality, I often think back to when I was growing up in Claverley in the 1950s and 60s. My parents, younger brother, and I lived in a tied cottage which came with my father's job as a farm worker, this was no picture postcard house by any means, in fact it was a semi-hovel. It was the middle house of three and consisted of a small room with a door which opened to the outside. There was a lean-to kitchen with barely enough room for a small table, an electric oven and boiler, a tin bath and a sink with a single cold tap, also there was a tiny room off the main living area which was used to store anything and everything including my mother's vacuum cleaner, etc, and there was a cellar which flooded on a regular basis. Upstairs there was a landing bedroom which... Read more
My Great Aunt at Albrighton
My great-aunt's name was Mina Sneath (nee Hanmer ) and her husband was Thomas Sneath. According to family story they lived at Albrighton in a converted railway carriage. Thomas was a very good gardener and made their plot into a haven. I would love to hear from anyone who knows anything about the family or indeed if the carriage. Is it still there? I suppose not, it will have been developed before now. I regret I have no knowledge of the date but probably between 1911 (census) and 1938). I don't know how long Thomas lived but Mina lived to old age, so I remember her very well. I was born 1938. Regards to all who read this,
Mike.
Gatacre Hall
I was taken to the ruin of the hall which was almost completely overgrown. Shortly afterwards a newspaper article appeared about Lord Gatacre abandoning the property earlier in the century. I recall a tree growing up through an old car but there was still a lot of furnishings in the building. In 1964 I acquired one of the nameplates from the GWR steam locomotive Gatacre Hall which I had for nearly 20 years. I also met one of the Gatacre family who lived near Claverly. I am searching for more information on this fascinating place.
I was working for a builder from Claverley and we were doing work on the Gatacre estate and 3 of us decided to try to see the ruined hall; after hacking through what seemed a "veritable" jungle we came upon the outer walls where there was an ancient car covered in undergrowth. I also remember a farm on the estate which was run by a family named Hyatt who remembered Squire "Calfery" Gatacre when he lived at Gatacre Hall. After the hall fell into disrepair, the squire on his return had a bungalow built to live in. It was always said that whenever the squire went in to any of the farms on the estate he recognized furniture from Gatacre hall, "allegedly". I also remember being told by a man who grew up in the area that he remembered the library just after the hall was abandoned, some of the books (tomes?) were so big, a wheelbarrow was needed to remove them.
Childhood Days
Wrottesley Park
92 Wrottesley Park, it was a nice address, a suggestion of elegance perhaps, a hint of grandeur even. However there was nothing grand about the place we lived in even though it was part of the Wrottesley Estate. Home for me as a child in the fifties was part of a Nissen hut in a converted army camp but despite its lowly status I consider myself most fortunate to have spent most of my childhood there.
We were the Baby Boomer generation although we didn’t know that at the time. They were lean times, rationing was still in place and household items along with food and much else were in short supply but we younger children were blissfully unaware of it all. Everyone was hard up, some more so than others; poverty was measured in varying degrees.
Like all children everywhere we took our way of life for granted, we... Read more
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