How interesting,thankyou.
I remember getting in to an old abandoned cottage ,it was still roofed but the back wall was open and built in to a hillside the bedroom floor was level with a path that ran alongside.
This was when I was a child.
The house had belonged to part of my paternal grand mother’s family .
Inside was an old tin trunks with some clothing and a Bible with my Grandmother’s name in it but there were many women in that family with the same name.
I longed to take it ,she left Shropshire in 1895, to be a servant in Manchester
,this would be early 1950’s..
However it could have been another family member’s , but all strict Baptists so a Bible left behind—?.
I left it where it was ,it felt like stealing and stealing a Bible- no no no .
I would love to see what is in the discovery in West Virginia.
Shropshire Lass, the cottage I mention was up The Resting Hill near The Devil’s Chair ,a family of my grandmother’s relatives lived there ,mentioned in books like ‘“Once Upon A Hill “
My husband and I searched for the ruins years later but with forty years plus gone by not much chance with bracken and gorse almost shoulder high.
One family member played Hymns on his trumpet which echoed right across from The Paddock to Vessons.
I would love to see what is found in what you mentioned in your post Shropshire Lass.
Viktoria.
