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Two-story yellow brick house with a dark front door, sash windows, and black metal railings along the front garden wall.

286 High Street, Cottenham

286 High Street, Cottenham

History of 286 High Street

In 2025 MC wrote:

I lived here as a child.  My father ran his coal business here. P. C Kidd coal merchants. He sadly died in 1986 so we sold it and moved out around 1991/2. I think they moved in around the 1960s. It was then brought by a developer and they knocked it down, leaving the front of the house the same, as it is a listed building.  They built a property on the coal yard.  Many memories in this house. Also the feeling that we weren’t alone there. Heating never worked in one of the bedrooms and some very strange feelings upstairs.

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