Sunday 16 September 2018

Who lived in Culver House?

Until this week I always presumed that nobody lived in Culver House until it was sold in 1922. I thought it was the Mortimers, then the Sibthorpes, followed by the Chinn family, and Bill Lee and his family, followed by us in 1985. I have just discovered that the Mortimer family were living here much earlier, certainly by 1880. It was the same family as the Mortimers of Uton Barton, a couple of miles away. The Mortimer family still farms there. Once I phoned the late Mr Mortimer of Uton Barton who told me he had two elderly aunts or great aunts who lived here. I also met Reg Botterell, who died on the day before the new millennium at Hillbrow across the road. He told me that he had worked at Culver House for those ladies as gardener/chauffeur, and that his wife had been the cook/housekeeper.































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