Longhope Bakery, the Green's Bakery at Huntley and Ivy Cotta (General)

by hawkyboy, Sunday, July 26, 2015, 17:12 (3419 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

Hi Mike
I feel like a Simpson's moment saying "Doh!". I had not seen a photo before but it is now logical. The ivy clad property next to the Greens was called Ivy House because it is covered with ivy!

Perhaps this was once called Ivy Cottage and got changed to Ivy House. Who knows?

This was owned by the Greens as far as I can establish. I am guessing this was the house in Joseph's Will.

Ivy Cottage by the butchers was owned by the Greens, but I think this was by Charlie Green and not inherited from Joseph. This is the cottage in wendythewife's post.

Hopefully wendythewife will come back and enlighten me. The next stage for me is if wendy can recall details of the oven, or fireplace, or even the internal layout. I am wondering if this was a bakery supplementing the one behind the grocery. The long shot would be if Harry Clayson set up a bakery here in competition with the Greens. But if he was a tenant in the Green's home the chances of this are remote.

Perhaps to muddy the water even further there were properties on the opposite side of the main road. Today this constitutes three properties. Certainly in the 1960s all was owned by the Greens. I do not know when these were purchased by the Greens nor if they had a commercial role. The stocks were outside the main property and these were move some decades back. I do not know why this was.

The land at the rear and side of these properties is the recreation ground. I do not know who owned this land before the recreation ground was established. Perhaps the Greens?