Micklow Cottages at the triangle junction of Micklow Lane and the the road to Street Houses from Skiningrove. (Thanks to Eric Johnson).
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This photo of a family gathering at Micklow Cottages was taken about 1948. Along the back, from the left are: Mary S. Hogan (Cooke), William Hogan ( b. 1870), Ruth Kitchener (Cooke), Lilian Wilkie (Cooke), Edith Baker (Cooke), Robert Cooke, George Kitchener, John (Jack) W. Cooke holding the little boy who is possibly Gordon Cooke, and Issac Newton Smith(b.18-1955) he was the street cleaner and rat catcher for Loftus.. Standing in front of them are: ??, Winifred Cooke (Crow), Hannah M. Cooke (Newton), Frederick Baker and Hannah M. Kitchener. The two children in the front are: Elizabeth E. Wilkie and Peter Kitchener. (Image courtesy of Keith Bowers and information supplied.)
Margaret Bowden(nee Willis) and her son, Ted, are on the left. Margaret was a midwife. Mary Stainthorpe Hogan (nee Cooke) is in the doorway with her nephew, Charles Kitchener. The photo was taken at Micklow Cottages about 1951. (Image courtesy of Keith Bowers)
Heavy snow on Micklow Lane, featuring Scott and Guy Breckon with friend (see note below), in the late 1980’s. Pictured opposite the site of old windmill (in Joe Wilkinson’s field) What’s the boy in the bottom right corner playing at? (Image and information courtesy of Mrs. Breckon)
Built in 1872 the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Street Houses, the former chapel now forms part of the farm buildings of Street Houses Farm. The stables beside the chapel experienced the Zepplin raid of 1916. Considerable burning took place, which is still evident in the rafters of the stables. The chapel (now in the process of repair by Tony Garbutt) survived to this day, despite being ”modified” for use as a barn by previous farm owners.
The children had must have been told the photographer was coming and are eagerly waiting for their photo to be taken. Street houses now seems to have changed it’s name to Upton Cottages and what I knew as Upton Cottages, the few houses that stood on a slight angle at the junction of Micklow lane and the cliff road, have been renamed Micklow cottages. Has anyone else noticed this? Street Houses, Primitive Methodist Chapel AD 1872. this chapel and thePrimitive Methodist Chapel at Arlington Street Loftus AD 1870. are unusual they are both aligned north/south instead of east/west as other christian churches are. is this peculier to Primitive Methodists (or a faulty compass). I was baptised at Arlington Street and I don’t know the answer. Iain Warnes was born at Upton and christened in this chapel in 1939, his grandfather Walter Warnes, had a small farm at Upton. His Great Uncle Aaron Rolling had a smallholding at Hummersea next to Tommy Hart. Thanks for all that information Eric
The beginning of the end for Street Houses. |
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