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Grange Farm Cottage, Hilton circa 1870Grange Farm Cottage, Hilton
History of Grange Farm Cottage
Listed Building
Grange Farm Cottage … Early C18 cottages.
A Maze of Memories, Hilton – Huntingdonshire 1948 – 1958, is an autobiography by Dora K Tack published in 1998, about her family life at Grange Cottage.
Dora moved top Hilton with her family after the birth of her second son, Alan, in 1947. They had been living in Papworth St Agnes where she gave birth. However she was told that her second son would need fresh milk daily. This was impossible at Papworth St Agnes, so her husband Frank talked with his farmer employer, Hugh Leycester, who found a ‘tied’ cottage on the Green at Hilton.
When they moved in the only electrical appliance was one light bulb in the living room. But, unlike Papworth St Agnes, there was water on tap provided by rain-water collected in a large galvanised tank. Frank worked Lattenbury Farm or in Hilton. Their son attended Hilton School.
This was the first home where Dora had had a ‘copper’ to heat water for washing. She used Rinso washing powder with Reckitt’s Blue added.
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