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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 15:19 BST (UK) »
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 14:55 BST (UK) »
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Sunday 28 July 13 12:47 BST (UK) »
Hi,
About 2 years late but here are some photos of Pywipe cottages and the Pyewipe West Sidings signal box.
1. That me age 4/5 about 1964/5 in front of my Dads Rover 12. The Railway line ran parallel to the cottages at the bottom of the gardens to the right.
2. Me stood in the doorway seen in photo 1. We didnt use this door, we would walk past this door turn right and in the door to the kitchen. Also round the corner was the outside loo (wooden bench, hole, bucket) and shed.
3.This is 'Brittania' class 4-6-2 No 70012 John O'Gaunt passing my Dads signal box which I am fairly sure is an RCTS Special in 1965. Specials came along now and again. The Flying Scotsman came past in, I think 1968.
4. My Dad took this from the top step of his box looking towards Skellingthorpe. The cottages can be seen in the distance perhaps appearing a bit further than they actually were. I used to play war games in and out of the wagons parked in the sidings. Something my Dad never new about as it was strictly a no no.
5.Taken, I assume from a gantry.
6. He took this from the back of his box looking across a field, the Lincoln - Doncaster line and the Fossdyke canal to the Pyewipe Inn.
Hope these are good for you all.
Regards
Andy
P.S. I might have upload photos one by one or two by two, so bear with me.
About 2 years late but here are some photos of Pywipe cottages and the Pyewipe West Sidings signal box.
1. That me age 4/5 about 1964/5 in front of my Dads Rover 12. The Railway line ran parallel to the cottages at the bottom of the gardens to the right.
2. Me stood in the doorway seen in photo 1. We didnt use this door, we would walk past this door turn right and in the door to the kitchen. Also round the corner was the outside loo (wooden bench, hole, bucket) and shed.
3.This is 'Brittania' class 4-6-2 No 70012 John O'Gaunt passing my Dads signal box which I am fairly sure is an RCTS Special in 1965. Specials came along now and again. The Flying Scotsman came past in, I think 1968.
4. My Dad took this from the top step of his box looking towards Skellingthorpe. The cottages can be seen in the distance perhaps appearing a bit further than they actually were. I used to play war games in and out of the wagons parked in the sidings. Something my Dad never new about as it was strictly a no no.
5.Taken, I assume from a gantry.
6. He took this from the back of his box looking across a field, the Lincoln - Doncaster line and the Fossdyke canal to the Pyewipe Inn.
Hope these are good for you all.
Regards
Andy
P.S. I might have upload photos one by one or two by two, so bear with me.
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Saturday 27 July 13 19:39 BST (UK) »
Fantastic photos Fireman Bill, cant believe someone has photos of the cottages or my Dads signal box.If you have
Any more i would be thrilled to see them. As i stated earlier in 2010 i lived at No1 (nearest one in the photo), from 1964 to 1969 and my Dad was the signalman until its closure.
And if you are reading this Neil, you know me better as Jammy. Unfortunately i cant help you either
in your quest to find photos of the Skelly box. I suppose we all took it for granted until we reached a certain age.
I will put a couple of photos on at some point of Pyewipe.
Any more i would be thrilled to see them. As i stated earlier in 2010 i lived at No1 (nearest one in the photo), from 1964 to 1969 and my Dad was the signalman until its closure.
And if you are reading this Neil, you know me better as Jammy. Unfortunately i cant help you either
in your quest to find photos of the Skelly box. I suppose we all took it for granted until we reached a certain age.
I will put a couple of photos on at some point of Pyewipe.
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Monday 15 November 10 00:49 GMT (UK) »
Just going away from Pyewipe I remember turning left out of Dixon Street in Lincoln onto Lincoln High Street and seeing trains crossing Gowts Bridge which nowadays would be a really really bizarre sight as it was a train crossing overhead on a simple bridge over a completely normal city high street. And the daft thing is I have never researched what it was all about untill you lot have stirred the curiosity in me with all this railway talk. And while i'm at it did you know that Lincoln is the only or one of the few cities where the main railway lines runs through the cenre of the city reguarly frustrating the traffic while the barriers come down and everyone waits for the the train to come through. Not many complaints though when Sir Nigel Gresley or Oliver Cromwell comes in with the Christmas market special in December.
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Sunday 14 November 10 09:40 GMT (UK) »
Yes there the ones Geoff. The one in the foreground is the station house and the two beyond are the cottages. Just up the road in the entrance to the community centre there is a little brick shed that would of been railway. Now used as the Skellingthorpe RAF heritage display.
Andy
Andy
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Sunday 14 November 10 08:22 GMT (UK) »
Hi Geoff E,
Sorry I didn't acknowledge your message yesterday as I just assumed it was Gerry who had answered and I was rushing around a bit.
Your research into the whereabouts of the cottages were spot on.
Just a bit more info for everyone. We were the last family to move out of the houses as my Dad was the signalman and had a job to finish. The other residents had been leaving periodically in the years before as things progressed and the need for staff had diminished, and then with Beeching the Chesterfield to Lincoln line was to be closed. Geoff was right earlier about passenger trains being specials as it was predominately a goods line bringing coal mainly from chesterfield area through to immingham, but I do remember when I was about 8 waiting what seemed days for the Flying Scotsman (4472) to come past on a special excursion. There i was sat on the fence with with my Mum and brother waving away like the railway children and the driver tooting and waving as it went past. My Dad has a photo from 1968 of the John of Gaunt (Britannia class 70012) coming through. Mainly though it was the old decrepit dirty black workhorses pulling freight past what seemed constantly day and night, and as the cottages were only a matter of 40 -50 yards away there was always a rumble going on. I would give anything for those days again though. The field to the north of the cottages was my playground, all to myself.
The road from the sewage works to the cottages was dreadful. It was never maintained and was full of potholes and only wide enough for one car. When we left the cottages stood for quite a while and were a haven for the periods youth and graffiti artists and gradually vandalised and wrecked until they eventually pulled them down and cleared the area. If you go now the area is neatly fenced off like some sort of memorial and apart from the flyover monstrosity is pretty much as was. There is some brickwork where the wall between the cottages path and the field was. My Mum says the land was sold to a London development company for some reason and my parents were offered the property for a small some. Now what they expected my parents to do with it i dont know, and needless to say we moved into the village in 1970. As i said earlier there are two cottages next to the community centre in Skellingthorpe that are copies of the ones that stood at Pyewipe and you can see them on Google street view. Better go, and at some point sort out the photo.
Andy
Sorry I didn't acknowledge your message yesterday as I just assumed it was Gerry who had answered and I was rushing around a bit.
Your research into the whereabouts of the cottages were spot on.
Just a bit more info for everyone. We were the last family to move out of the houses as my Dad was the signalman and had a job to finish. The other residents had been leaving periodically in the years before as things progressed and the need for staff had diminished, and then with Beeching the Chesterfield to Lincoln line was to be closed. Geoff was right earlier about passenger trains being specials as it was predominately a goods line bringing coal mainly from chesterfield area through to immingham, but I do remember when I was about 8 waiting what seemed days for the Flying Scotsman (4472) to come past on a special excursion. There i was sat on the fence with with my Mum and brother waving away like the railway children and the driver tooting and waving as it went past. My Dad has a photo from 1968 of the John of Gaunt (Britannia class 70012) coming through. Mainly though it was the old decrepit dirty black workhorses pulling freight past what seemed constantly day and night, and as the cottages were only a matter of 40 -50 yards away there was always a rumble going on. I would give anything for those days again though. The field to the north of the cottages was my playground, all to myself.
The road from the sewage works to the cottages was dreadful. It was never maintained and was full of potholes and only wide enough for one car. When we left the cottages stood for quite a while and were a haven for the periods youth and graffiti artists and gradually vandalised and wrecked until they eventually pulled them down and cleared the area. If you go now the area is neatly fenced off like some sort of memorial and apart from the flyover monstrosity is pretty much as was. There is some brickwork where the wall between the cottages path and the field was. My Mum says the land was sold to a London development company for some reason and my parents were offered the property for a small some. Now what they expected my parents to do with it i dont know, and needless to say we moved into the village in 1970. As i said earlier there are two cottages next to the community centre in Skellingthorpe that are copies of the ones that stood at Pyewipe and you can see them on Google street view. Better go, and at some point sort out the photo.
Andy
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Saturday 13 November 10 23:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi Gerry
What a daunting thought it is having to give birth in those cottages, especially in 1900. The cottages were remote and I should know as I had to make my way to school in the village and back every day. If you are ok with Google earth i can talk you through how to find it: Type in - 'Ferry Lane Skellingthorpe' and it should take you to a picture with a road in the middle of fields. Move up the road to the crossroads and there is a sewage works that was built about 1967ish. If you were to go straight on, the large buildings at the end is a slaughter house. What a lovely picture i'm painting. Didnt think anything of it when I lived there. Now, back at the cross roads, turn right then follow the road untill you come to what looks like an arrow head just before the dreaded dual carriageway (A46 by-pass). This is where your Grandmother was born.....the cottages, and this is difficult to explain,. If you say you were standing in the middle of the arrow head looking at the dual carriageway and turn 90 degrees left there is a sort of triangle of trees directly ahead flanked by a path on the right. In the middle of the triangle is a clump of darker looking greenery. That is exactly where they were.
If you go back to standing in the arrow head and look right, that is the cycle path I mentioned earlier that was the railway line and if you zoom out you can see where and where to it came and went. If you follow the line of the path past the cottages, under the bypass and you will see an avenue of trees bending round to the right which is obviously the continuation of the railway track. As you start to go round the bend you should see a bulding the other side of the river. This is the Pywipe Inn and if you were to stand at the front of the pub looking directly across the river my Fathers signal box and the railway sidings were in that avenue of trees. In your Grandmothers day you could get across the dyke by a platform with a chap pulling it by a rope. Hence Ferry Lane. I will try and get a photo on the site in case any one else wants to see it.
I best go have a rest now after all that. If you cant make sense of it, let me know.
Regards
Andy
What a daunting thought it is having to give birth in those cottages, especially in 1900. The cottages were remote and I should know as I had to make my way to school in the village and back every day. If you are ok with Google earth i can talk you through how to find it: Type in - 'Ferry Lane Skellingthorpe' and it should take you to a picture with a road in the middle of fields. Move up the road to the crossroads and there is a sewage works that was built about 1967ish. If you were to go straight on, the large buildings at the end is a slaughter house. What a lovely picture i'm painting. Didnt think anything of it when I lived there. Now, back at the cross roads, turn right then follow the road untill you come to what looks like an arrow head just before the dreaded dual carriageway (A46 by-pass). This is where your Grandmother was born.....the cottages, and this is difficult to explain,. If you say you were standing in the middle of the arrow head looking at the dual carriageway and turn 90 degrees left there is a sort of triangle of trees directly ahead flanked by a path on the right. In the middle of the triangle is a clump of darker looking greenery. That is exactly where they were.
If you go back to standing in the arrow head and look right, that is the cycle path I mentioned earlier that was the railway line and if you zoom out you can see where and where to it came and went. If you follow the line of the path past the cottages, under the bypass and you will see an avenue of trees bending round to the right which is obviously the continuation of the railway track. As you start to go round the bend you should see a bulding the other side of the river. This is the Pywipe Inn and if you were to stand at the front of the pub looking directly across the river my Fathers signal box and the railway sidings were in that avenue of trees. In your Grandmothers day you could get across the dyke by a platform with a chap pulling it by a rope. Hence Ferry Lane. I will try and get a photo on the site in case any one else wants to see it.
I best go have a rest now after all that. If you cant make sense of it, let me know.
Regards
Andy
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Lincolnshire / Re: Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe
« on: Saturday 13 November 10 08:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Stumbled across your chats about Pyewipe Cottages from a while ago which came up while searching, as you do, for titbits about things. So I have registered just so I can put you out your misery about the fate of these houses (unless you have found out since you were talking about them).
I actually lived in number 1 Pyewipe Cottages from 1963 to 1970 and we were the last occupants of the cottages. I was 10 when we left and moved into the village. My Father was the signalman at Pyewipe West Sidings.
I do believe that someone put a photo on this site believing it was of these houses but as someone else rightly pointed out it wasnt. It was of the railway houses in Skellingthorpe which were just the other side of the track. The signal box at Pyewipe was approx half a mile walk from the house.
The way to find the site of the cottages is very easy and very pleasant apart from the hideous dual carriageway ruining the view. If you were to park in the car park of Skellingthorpe community centre, which is on Lincoln Road if looking on Google street view or maps, which if on street view you can actually see the cottages that were in the photo mentioned earlier which are still standing and lived in and exactly the same as the ones at Pyewipe and virtually the same as they always were. From this car park you can cross the road and to the right 20 yards or so turn down the cycle track which lo and behold is the old railway line and about one and a half miles later you are where the cottages were. You can follow the route on Google earth. There were 6 house in all in 2 blocks of three and if you wish I can try and put a photo on for you if interested.
Hope this is helpful.
Anything else needed just let me know
Regards Andy
Stumbled across your chats about Pyewipe Cottages from a while ago which came up while searching, as you do, for titbits about things. So I have registered just so I can put you out your misery about the fate of these houses (unless you have found out since you were talking about them).
I actually lived in number 1 Pyewipe Cottages from 1963 to 1970 and we were the last occupants of the cottages. I was 10 when we left and moved into the village. My Father was the signalman at Pyewipe West Sidings.
I do believe that someone put a photo on this site believing it was of these houses but as someone else rightly pointed out it wasnt. It was of the railway houses in Skellingthorpe which were just the other side of the track. The signal box at Pyewipe was approx half a mile walk from the house.
The way to find the site of the cottages is very easy and very pleasant apart from the hideous dual carriageway ruining the view. If you were to park in the car park of Skellingthorpe community centre, which is on Lincoln Road if looking on Google street view or maps, which if on street view you can actually see the cottages that were in the photo mentioned earlier which are still standing and lived in and exactly the same as the ones at Pyewipe and virtually the same as they always were. From this car park you can cross the road and to the right 20 yards or so turn down the cycle track which lo and behold is the old railway line and about one and a half miles later you are where the cottages were. You can follow the route on Google earth. There were 6 house in all in 2 blocks of three and if you wish I can try and put a photo on for you if interested.
Hope this is helpful.
Anything else needed just let me know
Regards Andy
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