Pyewipe Cottages or Railway Cottages, Skellingthorpe

[smithy77]

Yes trying to find one, over the years i have put all my photos on disc, so now i have piles of cd discs with family, holidays etc all labelled photos! So having to search through, i'm off down there tomorrow or saturday anyway so will take the camera with me and get some more pics.

As for that area in pictures yes not easy to get to at all, which i suppose is part of the reason it still has some nice items down there. The old buffer stops that date 1913 are made of wooden type sleepers, that looks really strange in the middle of the wood.

[Redroger]

Great Smithy look forward to seeing the results.

[jawaka]

I am very interested in this discussion about the pyewipe as the area was served by the ferry across the Fossdyke at the bottom of Ferry Lane in skellingthorpe. I've found nothing on the internet and Lincolnshire Archive has but two documents which refer to it (one reference: Ferry, private). I lived in skellingthorpe from age 0 to 12 and Ferry lane was a regular walk for us. It is surprising that there is so little information given that the name Ferry Lane persists

I see Linnet 27 identifies the ferryman and I wonder if she or others have more info. Some photos would be lovely. I don't see that it could be a rope or chain ferry as boats would pass so maybe it was a raft and poled across?

My Dad told me that he used the ferry to cycle to school in Lincoln and used to stick out a foot onto a post to stop. Once he missed the post and fell in.




A little more information!  The cottage in the photo was Ferry House, Skellingthorpe, taken in 1941.  William Bourne was a railway worker and also ran the ferry across the Fosdyke Navigation to the Pyewipe Inn on Saxilby Road.