Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe

[GerryS]

Thanks Lynne for that,
Such a great photo,
May I ask you their surnames and do they appear on the 1901 census, to see how they are on the census in realtion to my greatgrandfather?
Thanks
Gerard
PS you can PM me if you do not want to publish

[linnet27]

Hi

It is lovely.  Mary and William Bourne.  They were married in 1912.  I'm not sure when they moved there.  William died in the cottage in 1958

Lynne

[Geoff-E]

It's a great pic, but I fear it shows a different location

Looking hard again at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html at the end of Fen/Ferry Lane, it appears there was a signal box (S.B.) there - here http://tinyurl.com/36jfchw

There were two signal boxes at Pyewipe Junction
1) Pyewipe Junction ... situated where the Skellingthorpe line branched off the main line
2) Pyewipe West ... slightly round the corner from the main line - but the length of sidings from the site of the cottages.  This can be seen on the old map (S.B.).

[linnet27]

Hi Geoff

Thanks for the link to the map, that is really interesting, but I am now totally confused.  I had imagined the cottage was further out on the road from Skellingthorpe that runs parallel to the A57 near Saxilby.  I will see Mum later - she is 88 but her memory is good.  Will ask her if she remembers where she cycled to!

Lynne

[GerryS]

Hi Lynne, Geoff and Rootschatters,
For your information there are no Bournes appearing on the 1901 census at the Fen/ Ferry so possibly they moved there after they married.
I have also found some further information about Pyewipe Junction. It was part of the the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway and was built towards the end of the era of British railway construction. It opened its line from Chesterfield to Lincoln in 1897. This date ties in with when my great grandfather moved there, as presumably the cottages and all the other signal boxes etc were built new with the railway.
I presume the site of the old cottages at Pyewipe were obliterated by the A46 or the construction for it. I have had a search through the net for pics of Pyewipe Junction but without much success.
Thanks
Gerard

[hanes teulu]

Have been folowing this with interest after trying to find where these cottages might be.

Very close to Pyewipe junction are the Smallpox Hospital and Pyewipe Public Swimming Baths. How close were the cottages to these two?

regards

[Geoff-E]

Very close to Pyewipe junction are the Smallpox Hospital and Pyewipe Public Swimming Baths. How close were the cottages to these two?

I've never heard of either Are you talking about the Pyewipe in Grimsby by any chance?  There was a hospital fairly close to Pyewipe (Lincoln) but it is now demolished http://www.gbmuk.com/gbm-project-stgeorgeshospital.html

Re the railway ... despite its name it reached neither Lancashire nor the East Coast - it was just Chesterfield to Lincoln.  I would have thought that once the railway closed there was no further use for the cottages.  I suspect they would have been lacking mains services.  In any case, I can't imagine six isolated terraced houses being a particularly attractive proposition

[hanes teulu]

geoff,
I'm looking at an 1891 ordnance Survey map - on line. Think it's the right place.

Immediately to the West of the Smallpox Hospital and Public Baths (across the Main drain/Catchwater drain) is the Pyewipe Inn and Foss Dyke Navigation Canal. Immediately to the South is the Grandstand of the Race Course.

All this sits on the St Mary le Wigford with Holmes Common - West

regards

[Geoff-E]

geoff,
I'm looking at an 1891 ordnance Survey map - on line. Think it's the right place.

Oh yes, I see where you mean!   They are marked on my 1924 map too

The City (St George's) Hospital must have replaced the Isolation Hospital - it had changed by 1928.  The cottages were due west of the baths ... about 1100 yards west.  As I posted earlier http://tinyurl.com/2uj45xc