The Lodge Cottage Marshbrook

A Memory of Marshbrook.

My grandparents used to own the 'Lodge' in Marshbrook during the 70's and I spent many a happy summer holiday with them there. My grandparents, Jack and Ethel Perkins, moved there from Birmingham and spent a lot of time doing up and inproving the cottage. I remember that the Railway Inn was at one time owned by my grandfather's sister and that the fox hunts used to leave from there. We would often go down and watch the hunt leaving. My grandfather also seemed to know all the men that worked in the signal box at the end of the road and we would often go into the signal box and I would help with closing the gates when a train was due. (They weren't automatic in them days). My grandmother used to get her milk and morning paper from the garage on the corner and always did her main shopping in Church Stretton. I remember that at times there used to be old steam trains run past the cottage and I loved to wave to them as they went past. I have recently been back to see the 'Lodge', now empty, and was quite sad to see how much the cottage and Marshbrook itself has changed. Perhaps its right that you should never go back to places you remember for fear of disappointment?

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