Coney Moor
Opposite Coney Moor houses and between the Queen
Inn and the Old People's bungalows, these private houses and bungalows were
built 1987 onward.
Wilson's Shop, Coney Moor, early 1900s.
This was in the last house of the two older
cottages at the end of the Coney Moor rows. A typical village shop of this
time. The shopkeeper and her assistant (Miss Nellie Calline, later Mrs. Smith
of 40, Main Street) stand at the shop doorway in their snow-white aprons.
Snow is on the ground. The sign above the door reads 'Wilson's Boot Warehouse,
Draper and Provision Dealer' and gives some idea of the great variety of goods
sold in this village business. In the windows - groceries and sweets in the
left-hand window, drapery in the right-hand window, with metal adverts on
the walls for soap, tea, chocolate. There are net curtains at the house windows
and crocheted edged blinds. Little transport being available, such well-stocked
shops were invaluable, a vital asset for villagers
Looking up Lower Mickletown from Boat Lane, 1983.
On the right, west, end house of a pair of semi-detached
houses built late 1930s, then four older houses of Moor View (ie. looking
over Coney Moor), then a bungalow on site of older demolished property. The
gable visible between the bungalow and Moor View houses is that of one of
the two detached houses built on the site of the former Moor Side Farm, which
was occupied by the Hyatt family for many years. Further down is the gable
of modernised older houses. Between the old people's bungalows and Moor View
there has been re-development - several new dormer bungalows have been built.
Lower Mickletown is becoming a developed area!
