My journey takes me to Shed Cottage, Clee Hill, nr Ludlow. What I would like to find out is how did it get it's name?. I would like to find out who lived in this cottage in 1942, I believe that William & Alice RANDELL & maybe a GOUGH or GOFF lived there. Also was there a munitions factory nearby? I would appreciate any help that anyone could supply. LIZ
Also try a letter to the editor, Ludlow Advertiser - e.mail: fiona.phillips@herefordtimes.com . (To pre-empt a ribald comment from my friend Guliemus, it was the old local who might drink 13 pints of scrumpy).
Hi Liz,
Try as I will I can't find the information I have nagging at the back of my mind, I'm sure I have heard, read or been told that there was an ammunition/bomb dump, not a factory, somewhere on or close to Clee Hill during the war.
As for Shed Cottage, well there were loco sheds on Clee Hill and after the war quite a few squatters sheds/cottages, but I can't say I have any knowledge of the one you are looking for, sorry.
If you believe Martyns' version of 13 pints, well you'll believe anything, I think part of his miss spent youth was not far from the Clee.
Gulielmus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Clee_Hill
"Many of the men returned and worked at the naval ammunition depot set up at Ditton Priors at the start of the war".
AND...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditton_Priors
HTH,
MM
Hi Liz
I am not sure where Shed Cottage was but I used to live in Golden Cross lane which ran into Goods Shed lane now it may have been somewhere near there. There also used to be a loco shed across the line on the way to Du Stone.
I am not sure about ammunition/bomb dump but they would have stored explosives for the quarries.
Martyn sadly The Angel (pub) on Angel Bank closed meny moons ago, and as for the rot gut (cider) one pint would knock me out.
Annette
Hi,
There was a Royal Navy ( yes, Royal Navy) Armaments Depot and railway, built at Ditton Priors in 1941 and used until 1965. Then it was used by the United States for several years.
Today it's a Trading Estate.
Dozens of the widely spaced buildings are clearly visible on Google Earth.
Gwynne
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As no-one here has so far thrown (? shed) any light on the topic you might try contacting the licensee of the Angel (pub) on Angel Bank, Clee Hill. My ancient memory is of it being frequented by elderly locals. If still true, one of them might have a recollection. (One such warned me off too much scrumpy as being bad for the gut, noting that 13 pints was "enow for any mon").