Tattingstone - Help please (if at all possible)

[Tervid03]

Try google map using IP9 2NX  which is the post code for 2 Crag Pit Cottage, Tattingstone, I found it using the Royal Mail website, so all you need is someone to take a picture!
Terry

[Lee_T]

Try google map using IP9 2NX  which is the post code for 2 Crag Pit Cottage, Tattingstone, I found it using the Royal Mail website, so all you need is someone to take a picture!
Terry

Genius!!!

Thanks Terry!

I'm sure someone must live sort of near there .... *hope*

[Suffolk Mawther]

Don't forget that Tattingstone was cut in half when the reservoir was created - Alton Water.

Some farms disappeared under the water, with others, land was severed from farm house.

I hope that your cottages were in the half that did not disappear under the water.

You can read more - with photographs at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/nature/alton_water/reservoir.shtml

SM ...

[Ransford]

Hi There my name is Ransford Thomas i am the owner of the Brantham bull which is about a mile from Craipit farm and i know Becky and the family who own craigpit farm we use them for our fruit and veg and i drive past the cottage every time i visit the farm
Did you get all the help and info you needed or maybe i can help

Ransford

[Lee_T]

Hi there, Ransford.

Thanks ever so much for your response. I've sent you a private message.

All the very best.

Lee

[Rick]

Hi Lee

As Ransford has only made one post he may not be able to reply to you.

Ransford you need to make 2 further posts to be able to access the Personal Messaging system.

http://www.rootschat.com/help/pms.php

Rick

[Tervid03]

I think the cottages in question were flooded when the reservoir was built after having their roofs removed etc, I think I may well have emailed Ebor337 with this information some time back, I also tried contacting a chap at the Stutton Local History group but alas he was in hospital at that time, maybe worth trying again, someone somewhere must have a photograph before they were submerged you would think!

[a j bayram]

One property to have been submerged was, I believe, Alton Hall Farm.  There was also a mill, certainly a building of some interest, which was removed and taken to the East Anglian Rural Life Museum at Stowmarket (their website may give further information).

My former neighbour worked in the admin office and her husband helped construct said reservoir, I'll ask them what properties disappeared.  I shal be seeing them in the next few days. 

There was a chap in Stutton who collated all he could about the area, unfortunately he is now in residential care and shall also ask my former neighbours how lucid he is and where all his material went (I hope the Suffolk Records Office).

I hope this helps.

Regards... Andrew.

[Tervid03]

Sounds like the same gentleman to me, hopefully Andrew will be able to find out about him.
I met up with a Mr Abbott in the vicinity of where the old road ran down into the now water filled reservoir and he pointed out the submerged wall to me, I cannot remember his  first name unfortunately as it was in 2008!