Acknowledgement: Mike Guy
The Lost Cottages
Acknowledgement: Mike Guy
Due to road improvements on the Buildwas to Wenlock Road, two cottages that used to belong to the estate were demolished.
The first was on the right hand side of the road between the top of Farley Bank and the white cottage on the left. There were two semi-detached limestone built cottages which were demolished in the late 1960’s for road widening.
The Blue Pool pike
The second limestone built cottage was on a very bad right hand corner further up the road opposite the railway crossing house.
Some of the foundations can still be seen. This was a single cottage that was lived in by a Mrs Morris. We did many repairs to the house most of which were caused by the heavy lorries that carried stone from the local quarries.
The house on the same side just up the road was owned by Mrs Morris’ daughter when the council decided they wanted to purchase the house for road widening. She moved into a large static caravan in her daughters garden just behind her old cottage. The council then decided that it would be another couple of years before the work would be carried out and if the estate wanted to, they could put in a short term tenant.
The cottage was lived in by a lady friend of Mr and Mrs Bayliss who came up from London, who stayed there till work commenced and the cottage was demolished.
Mike Guy
Buildwas Park
