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The Hotel Garage
My grandfather Bert Hedger managed the garage attached to The Hotel during the late 1920s. It belonged to Phillip West who was a mill owner from Manchester and was managed by his sister-in-law Lillian Harker. It was a five star hotel and all the best people stayed there. A lot of famous racing drivers from the 1920s stayed there for the Shelsby Walsh hill trials, including Wolf Banato of Bentley's and also Freddie Field of Bugatti's - he would stock up with 2 gallon tins of aviation spirit and tins of pure benzene. The autumn meet would fill the place with racing cars. The drivers or their mechanics would arrive at 8.00 in the morning to warm their engines up and would rev them for 5-10 minutes at a time. Petrol was sold at 1/- per gallon and punctures were repaired for 2/6d. Warming up the engines resulted in a lot of complaints from the local townsfolk.
Grandpa remembers one old gentleman of 70 years of age, Fred Platt,... Read more
Eudon Mill
At the end of 1995 my family moved to Eudon Mill at Eudon George near Bridgnorth. The old timber framed house dating from the sixteenth century had been the original water powered corn mill and in the large grounds there was the ruins of a later eighteenth century water powered tower mill, which we understood had worked until the mid thirties and was demolished in the early fifties. The Borle brook ran through the gardens, but the mills had been powered by a small independant stream which ran from near Little Eudon and once fed a large mill pond above the house, the exhaust water from the mills flowing into the Borle brook just above the old fording place in the east corner of the gardens. To my knowlege there were at the time we occupied our lovely home at least four maybe five water mills, not including Daniels Mill within a two mile radius of our property.
Ethel May Tantrum
My husband's Grandmother, Ethel May Tantrum, was born in Craven Arms in 1885, but by 1891 was living in Elms Cottage, Little Stretton. In 1910, she married Harold Ezard and in 1924 she died at White Birches Cottage, Little Stretton. Their son, Harold, was born in Little Stretton, but we are not sure where (possibly White Birches Cottage?) and we would love to hear from anyone who could help us find out more about the Tantrums and the Ezards of Little Stretton.
We recently visited Little Stretton, by chance, with some friends and found it a fascinating place and plan to return in the future.
Wonderful Memories
This was the cottage that my mum grew up in. She had to move to Wolverhampton in the 1930s because there was no work for girls on Clee Hill. I have wonderful memories of Clee Hill in the 1950s and 60s when we used to visit my gran and grandad, aunts, uncles and cousins. I can remember wild primroses, water cress growing wild in the stream, snow several feet deep, the derelict quarry, the journey from Wolverhampton which took 3 or 4 hours from Wolverhampton, the bus from Kidderminster struggling as it climbed Hopton Bank, but most of all the lovely people. Happy memories and happy days!
Sadie Uzolins
I lived in Cleehill in the early 1950s in a cottage in the middle of a field. And I do remember the very deep snow we had, and my father having to dig us out. We had a nanny goat which used to butt my father if he got to near her. We lived with my nan, Ada Bearcroft. They were happy days, and such a lovely place to have lived.
Corn Brook
Hi, it looks like this house was set against the Corn Brook midway between Corn Brook bridge on the A4117 and Fairyglen which is downstream. The house is no longer there, but where it was, was a place called Enoch's Garden. We used to play around there when we were kids. My mother was born just below at the Poplars, and I was born at Lea Cottage on Furnace Lane. My mother's maiden name is Thomas, more local names would be the Cleetons, Prices, Turner and Edwards.
Best Years
I lived on Clee Hill as a child and they were the best years of my life, the freedom and fun we had riding our bikes, it was so safe, I could see 7 counties from my bedroom window.
