Dear Listers,
John Hopkins and Clive Gardener are quite correct: I was mistaken in
identifying the "Cloud House" as Tumbledown Cottage (aka the Old Crow).
The fact that the Daily Mail has published a separate article on each of the
two cottages misled me into assuming the article referred to by Martin
Briscoe was the one published by the Daily Mail last March about the Old
Crow in Willersley. I found the Mail's article on the Old Crow rather
distasteful in the way it breached the privacy of the cottage's recent
occupants. Moreover, the means by which the Mail photographer obtained his
interior pictures was highly questionable.
I apologise to everyone for my identification error, and thank John and
Clive for rectifying it.
Kind regards,
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Clive Gardener via
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:10 AM
To: John Hopkins ; powys(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: Jock Williams
Subject: Re: [POWYS] The 'Cloud House'
Dear John (Hopkins)
You're quite right - they are two different places!
If anyone can guess where the cottage is located then I shall be going
somewhere in six days time where I should be able to trace the name of the
occupants during the period to which some of the artefacts belong.
If the owner(s)/occupier(s) died without leaving relatives or a will, or
their estate was tied up by legal proceedings and the solicitor concerned
also died around the same time, perhaps having stored the deeds safely away
somewhere, then the property could have ended up being left in limbo.
More likely is that a living person has abandoned the cottage in its exact
state at a certain moment in time, for personal historical reasons - a
little like Miss Havisham's house in Charles Dickens' 'Great
Expectations',
abandoned at the moment of her jilted wedding - and this person could well
still be alive somewhere in the UK yet unable to get to the place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Havisham
Anyway, if anyone on the list knows where the cottage is located, but
doesn't know the name(s) of the missing occupant(s), drop me a line and I'll
do some research next Tuesday and post the results (but not the address)
here on the list . . .
Best regards
Clive Gardener
www.secret-bottletop.com