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Worcestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Howden Cottages, Cotheridge
« on: Saturday 30 April 16 20:15 BST (UK) »
Hi I have recently joined this site and read your post about the Ink Pots at Cotheridge, I have lived in and around Cotheridge all my life. My father (86) can remember them from when he was 17/18 years old.
My maternal grandmother told us how she lived in one of the ink pots and slept in the other!! As far as I can judge from her ansestory records this must of been after her youngest sisters birth in 1915 Bromyard and her marriage in 1929. Her marriage certificate just states Cotheridge. Great- grandma later lived 50 yards away from here on the Bromyard road in a house in which her granddaughters husband still lives.
Dad says from his recall they could of once been hop oast houses from there shape and size. All the local land was hop yard.
In those times people from the Birmingham Walsall and Dudley used to spend 6-8 weeks holidays hop picking in this area, this may be why your father was born in this area.
The road/ drive which separated the Ink pots was the half mile long trake edged in Lime trees that lead past st Lenards church to Cotheridge Court, therefore they could of been lodge houses to the grand court house.
My maternal grandmother told us how she lived in one of the ink pots and slept in the other!! As far as I can judge from her ansestory records this must of been after her youngest sisters birth in 1915 Bromyard and her marriage in 1929. Her marriage certificate just states Cotheridge. Great- grandma later lived 50 yards away from here on the Bromyard road in a house in which her granddaughters husband still lives.
Dad says from his recall they could of once been hop oast houses from there shape and size. All the local land was hop yard.
In those times people from the Birmingham Walsall and Dudley used to spend 6-8 weeks holidays hop picking in this area, this may be why your father was born in this area.
The road/ drive which separated the Ink pots was the half mile long trake edged in Lime trees that lead past st Lenards church to Cotheridge Court, therefore they could of been lodge houses to the grand court house.