algy Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Where were these cottages, they were known by a specific name?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Padgate Cottage Homes for naughty boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wireboy Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Are those the old Railway cottages at Padgate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Sorry Folks! not Padgate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wireboy Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Then no idea I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 There is a very good clue in the photo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arty69uk Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Orford Tannery Cottages.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Orford Tannery Cottages.. No! arty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grappenhall Guy Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Only a guess with the telegraph pole in the centre....telegraph cottages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Once again - no idea. However, I must correct Cleo, the Cottage Homes was an orphanage not a reform school. My farher and his sister were raised there until they were turned out at fourteen with nothing but a paper bag holding their belongings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Only a guess with the telegraph pole in the centre....telegraph cottages. GG, knowing that you have a good knowledge of the Warrington area I am not going to say that they are not known as 'Telegraph' cottages until you say where they were situated, I know these cottages under another name, that name being the name of the person that lived local or in one of them?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Greenhall cottages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Once again - no idea. However, I must correct Cleo, the Cottage Homes was an orphanage not a reform school. My farher and his sister were raised there until they were turned out at fourteen with nothing but a paper bag holding their belongings. Stall, I think you are the same age as myself so I would think my dad would have been a similar age to yours, he was born in 1913 and he and three of his sisters were brought up there also and as you said, dad was turfed out with next to nothing and sent labouring on a farm at Moss side Moore where he slept rough in farm outbuildings with other Irish farm workers, he did have a mother but all but one of the children were taken away from her and sent into Padgate Cottage Homes when my Grandad who was an engine driver at Dallam shed had a bad accident in the early 1920's and was unable to work and with no money coming in, threatened to kill grandma who was pregnant, himself and all the children, he was restrained sectioned and spent the rest of his days in Winwick hospital until he died in 1968. I'm very bitter about the whole situation as none of their family would neither help them financially or take the children. Perhaps your dad and your aunt knew my dad?. Sorry about wandering off topic folks!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Hope the folks will forgive us Algy, but had to respond. Dad born in 1912, mother died in flu epidemic, father stoker who was never home (sorry Asp.) Dad left Cottage Homes at fourteen and walked to Altrincham where his sister, who had been gone a year, had found a job in 'service'. It took him four days living rough. Found his sister but she could only give him a slice of bread - first food he'd had in four days. Managed to get taken on at Kearns Engineering as a sweeper. Was doing better, sleeping under the benches, until one of the fitters caught him eating sandwiches out of the trash and he had to go before old Kearns. Here's one of those cruel 'rich people', Kearns listened to his story and instead of firing him, he made him an apprentice and found him a room and gave him a raise to cover it. He ended up as one of the best 'fitters' I've ever known. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 Hope the folks will forgive us Algy, but had to respond. Dad born in 1912, mother died in flu epidemic, father stoker who was never home (sorry Asp.) Dad left Cottage Homes at fourteen and walked to Altrincham where his sister, who had been gone a year, had found a job in 'service'. It took him four days living rough. Found his sister but she could only give him a slice of bread - first food he'd had in four days. Managed to get taken on at Kearns Engineering as a sweeper. Was doing better, sleeping under the benches, until one of the fitters caught him eating sandwiches out of the trash and he had to go before old Kearns. Here's one of those cruel 'rich people', Kearns listened to his story and instead of firing him, he made him an apprentice and found him a room and gave him a raise to cover it. He ended up as one of the best 'fitters' I've ever known. Tell you what Stal, everyone whinges and moans about the present state of affairs in the UK today, they would not have survived as those youngsters had to in those days, it was a matter of pick yourself up and do whatever it took to keep alive, was not uncommon for people to fall down in a hedgerow and fall asleep from exhaustion and never wake up and it wouldn't even make the local newspaper. They were hard days and pray to god they never return!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallard12 Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 It just shows Algy, it's not government money or 'programs', it's personal strength, integrity and effort that is the basis of success. Both of my sons, in school papers, placed their grandfather as the person they most admired. I guess I should feel slighted, but I don't. Mom was a mill girl who learned sign language as part of her job. Considering their beginnings,I bet that both of them would have been surprised if someone would have told them that they would end their days in a cemetary in Port Arthur, Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 And don't worry about going off topic. Fascinating to read, but correct when you say folk wouldn't mange these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 And don't worry about going off topic. Fascinating to read, but correct when you say folk wouldn't mange these days. Thanks Peter. Anyhow back to topic - where are the cottages in the photo, with it not going too well, heres a small clue, study the black & white half timbered building, surely someone will recognise it as it is still there today!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grappenhall Guy Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 The timbered building is the Mulberry pub the cottages possibly pidgeon bank cottages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 The timbered building is the Mulberry pub the cottages possibly pidgeon bank cottages GG. I thought you would recognise it eventually and yes the cottages known as 'Jimmy Swinton's' cottages were as you say on pigeon bank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted November 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 Greenhall cottages. Peter, I'm sorry my reply is a bit late (or early) but as I'm sure you have gathered they are not Greenall's cottages. GG came good in the end!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 Arrgh... well done GG I'd looked at that picture so many times and knew I'd seen that black and white building before. Even though I walk past it nearly every day it still didn't click in my little brain As for 'pidgeon bank' or 'Jimmy Swintons' cottages.... I'd never heard of them until now. Nice one Algy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.