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

by hawkyboy, Sunday, July 26, 2015, 13:53 (3408 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

Hello Mike, thanks again for your response.

I can only chip in pieces of info and see what happens. Joseph came from London and I do not know why he settled in Huntley. Equally, a typical London background would not have made him an ideal person to go farming in a significant way for the era we are considering.

It is known that Joseph had connections with an orphanage. Hence he may have been an orphan settling in the community. Equally Louisa Harry may have come from an orphanage and be living in the Green's accommodation. Or she may have settled from London in connection with Joseph.

The Ivy Cottage that is my particular interest is the black and white cottage a couple of dwellings to the left of the butchers on the main road. The property to the right of the Greens clad in ivy on your photo does interest me. The Greens almost certainly owned this by the 1930s. I do not know the name of this home - is this also an Ivy Cottage?

Wendythewife may hold a key here for she lived in the Ivy Cottage down the side lane to the left of the butchers. If there were an oven here then that adds a further twist to the story. This might also suggest that Harry Clayson was baking there for the Greens.

Joseph's Will refers to a house and I was assuming this is the one beside the Greens. It might be that instead this reference is to the Ivy Cottage near the butchers. I say this because years ago I think the property to the right of the Greens was viewed by them as an extension of their business and not a separate dwelling. There are recollections of family and staff lived behind the Greens, above the Greens and to the right of the Greens.

My problem is trying to piece everything together, but you are doing brilliantly!