Church Street

A Memory of Cowden.

Generations of my family lived in Cowden, going right back to 1700s.
My parents were married in the church, which lies behind the wall you can just see at the front of this photo. I was also baptised here in 1958.

The main significance of this photo for me, are the two houses connected to the Old Smithy (facing left towards the church). My grandmother, Winnie Card, and her three little sisters were born in Church Cottages, and this is where their mother tragically died at a young age in 1919.
Their next door neighbours were Richard & Emily Pannell; and somewhere I have a photo taken from the same angle, of Emily standing at her front door. Their older son, Charles Frederick married "the little girl next door," Winnie, in 1930.