Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe

[Geoff-E]

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.

These ones?  They (and the pair beyond) seem to be the only houses in the area in 1906 http://tinyurl.com/34sa9sr

Thanks for the interesting stories Andy.

My childhood was spent just a couple of miles away at Hartsholme.  As a trainspotter in the late 50s, I always hoped to be stopped at any level crossing, but I don't think I ever saw a train on that line

In the 1980, an auntie and uncle had a house in Skelly that backed onto the railway.  I don't suppose trains ever ran on Sundays, so I never saw a train then either

[GerryS]

Thanks Andy,
Your directions on Google Earth are excellent and your memories are fascinating.
In fact both my granmother (1900) and my great uncle Edward (1902) were born there. In the 1901 census as well as the my great granparents there were 8 children living there aged up to 14 years old. In the years afterwards the family left to live in Shirebrook.
Thanks again for the reminiscences and if you ever sort out a picture of the cottages I would be interested to see it.
Whenever I am up there again I will certainly have a good look around!
Gerry

[AndyPick]

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

[Geoff-E]

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.

Yes, it looks the sort of building that would have had a weighbridge in the road in front of it, and vehicles (eg coal lorries) leaving and entering the station yard would have been weighed there.  http://tinyurl.com/39eyxpp

In fact if you go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html
Search Skellingthorpe (click Go)
then change the coordinates to 492800 371800 (click Go)
then select the 1932 1:2000 map and zoom in
you can see the hut and weighbridge in front of it.

[Redroger]

Have a picture of the Flying Scotsman taken at Boutham Junction, snow lying so winter, probably 1963. It hangs in my railway room, along with other souvenirs, including a unique carriage destination board for "Spilsby" Lincs, through coach from King's Cross prior to closure in 1937.

[Geoff-E]

Have a picture of the Flying Scotsman taken at Boutham Junction, snow lying so winter, probably 1963.

Flying Scotsman was withdrawn by BR in Jan 1963 and would have been in BR livery with double chimney and smoke deflectors at that time.  There was virtually no snow in Lincoln that winter.  It froze well though!

[Redroger]

I worked at Lincoln from 1962 to 1965, and commuted daily from Boston through that winter!I remember that outside our office doOutside the city there was more snow, and on my photo there was snow lying at Boultham Junction. or, BR Accounts Office St. Marks station a milk bottle had been broken on 23rd December. I reported it to the janitor for clearance, before he could do so it snowed and snowed heavily, the bottle was finally cleared when the thaw came in March 1963. So the snow laid for around 12 weeks and gradually became less as time passed. There was more snow outside the city and when the Scotsman was photographed at Boultham there is snow in the photo. The engine was in BR livery No.60103, with German deflector plates and banjo dome.

[Geoff-E]

I now must concede that my recollections of that winter are less than perfect.     I had been under the misapprehension that Lincoln City's Boxing Day fixture had been postponed owing to a frozen pitch.  I now discover that Aldershot had been able to reach Lincoln and the match went ahead, Aldershot winning 4-2   However the return fixture at Aldershot on the 29th Dec didn't take place.

Flying Scotsman's last run was to Doncaster on Jan 14, leaving Kings Cross at 1.15pm - it appeared to have been cleaned for the occasion.  Its smoke deflectors and double chimney had been removed by early February.

Contrary to your earlier assertion, the Midland Railway barely got within a mile of Boultham Junction.

[Redroger]

Geoff, My memory is I fear going ------. The Scotsman photo was in fact taken at Greetwell Junction, now well and truly extinct. You are quite right about the Midland and Boultham, but it was still something of a pinchpoint.