Your House and Mine |
Inglenook, Middle Cottage & Sunny Corner |
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Introduction
Map of Frieth Moor End Bramblings Astrea Merrydown Cottage Corner Cottage Moor's End Cottages Moor Gate House Underwood The Copse Fingest Road The Forge Folly Cottages The Willows Perrin Springs Lane Perrin Springs West's Cottages Ellery Rise Hilliers Lynden Cottage Frieth Hill Hillside Cottage Rowleys Pear Tree Cottage Hillside View The Platt Little Barlows Cutlers Cottage Yew Tree Cottage Little Cottage Barlows Birch Cottage Tedders / Rose Cottage The Old Stores The Yew Tree Inn Fairfield House Flint Cottage 1 Flint Cottage 2 Inglenook Middle Cottage Sunny Corner The Gables The Orchards Hilltop Cattons Mallards Hillswood The Old Parsonage White Gates The Laurels The Cottage The Firm Marlstone Westwood Bradstone Haylescroft The Niche Rivendell Summerhill Ashcroft Selborne The Ranch House Sara's Cottage The Cherries The Old School House Innings Road Collier's Farm Innings Gate Down the Lane Sunset Cottage Fermain Chilterns Rowan Cottage Creighton Cottage Apple Tree Old Well Cottage The Cottage Flat Roof Whitsun Backlins Red Kites Maidenscraft Spurgrove Lane Maidencraft Cottage September Cottage Spurgrove Cottage Gable End Willems Elder Barn Sunnydale |
These three cottages are of Early Victorian construction. They were not there in 1834 but were in existence by 1845. Thomas Corby from Great Marlow was the builder. Peggy West told me the story of how as small children, circa 1924, she and her sister were taught to make pillow lace by an elderly lady, Mrs Poole, who lived in Inglenook. When they got the pattern wrong and the bobbins all mixed up Mrs Poole would say "I'll 'ave to get that there ole catstick to yer" but she never did! However they were not allowed to take their pillows home until they had mastered the pattern. Peggy has been a lacemaker all her life and has taught the craft to a number of girls. [ Peggy passed away in 2006 ] Toby Poole lived with his brother Harry and sister-in-law in Inglenook, both men worked at the firm of West and Collier. Harry shaped the elm chair seats with adze and smoothing shaves and Toby was the polisher. His favourite weather was bright and windy - 'summerwind' as he called it, because he could stand the chairs outside to dry. Toby's nickname was 'Click' Poole because he never stopped talking! There are other accounts of lacemaking and chairmaking in both "Frieth a Chiltern Village" and the large looseleaf book "A History of Frieth" Fred Bond and his wife were still living in Sunny Corner in 1949, he was another old Frieth character. When teaching at Frieth School I remember these incidents. At that time the School only owned the ground it stood upon and a very small area of playground in front of and at the rear of the School. The children had to play and do P.E. on the patch of Village Green in front of the School. Mr Bond used to remind us that this was common ground by walking straight across the play area with his garden fork over his shoulder, regardless of the children, to get to his allotment. (The allotments were where the School playing field is now and the entrance to them was via the path between the school fence and the Village Hall fence) Ted Collier from Moor's End did the same thing as Mr Bond but in a more amusing way. If he was walking up the Green when a P.E. Lesson was in progress he would stop amongst the class and join in with the exercises to the delight of the children, who liked him, and the complete disruption of the class! |
