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Originally Posted by Rowlf
No Taddy the Hilda you mention is not any relation of mine. My aunt was Hilda Gregory who lived in Enfield Road, next to bottom house. Speaking of coffins, when my G,Grandfather died he was too large for them to get him down the stairs of the cottage so they had to take the window out. My dad always said the cottage he lived in though was to the right of the pub in what is now the car park. I only have that to go off as he died in Jan 1935. Another story was that when he was dying he said if they let him go 'across' to the Bull he would cure himself. That sounds like he was where dad said and not a cottage attached to the pub.
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I can remember Hilda Gregory but her husbands name escapes me, they were both active members of the local labour party as were my parents; their meetings were held in a wooden hut on what was known locally as "Woodcocks Pen" at the bottom of Fish Lane, now called Lynwood Road; Hilda and her husband were frequent visitors to ("Our"),my parents house whenever there was an election.I can remember Labour Party posters being put up in our front windows asking people to vote Labour.
Shame we no longer have the people of her calibre putting up for the Labour party nowaday's.
As for the cottage being on the right, if you stand with your back to the pub, then yes it would be on your right but then again if you stood looking at the pub from the road,where the car park is now, there used to be buildings known as the "corn exchange", maybe this also included a cottage or two?
You have got me intrigued, I will try to dig up a little more information