This blog posts extracts from E J Rudsdale's diaries of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War.
Each extract was posted exactly 70 years after it was first written, marking the 70th anniversary of the Second World War between 2009-2015.
21st August 1941
Went up to Roverstye Farm tonight with Mr. Craig for the survey. This farm, which is nothing much to look at, always thrills me when I think that its name has not changed to any appreciable extent since the early 14th century.
A fine day, no rain.
4 comments:
Jane
said...
I wonder if the current pub 'Rovers Tye' on Ipswich Road has any connection with this farm?
Hi Jane, Yes, I believe this farmhouse is now the Rovers Tye pub. A lot of these Colchester Borough Farms seem to have been lost to housing developments after the war but it's interesting to see that their names remain in the road names and to find that the farm buildings were adapted to new uses. CP
Rovers' Tye farm was quite big, going all the way through to Severalls. Friends used to shoot over it with Dick Crick and his family who farmed it till the late 60s or early 70s when they sold the whole lot very profitably for development, and the house became the pub. I think they were tenants who bought the farm from the Borough during the war.
4 comments:
I wonder if the current pub 'Rovers Tye' on Ipswich Road has any connection with this farm?
Hi Jane, Yes, I believe this farmhouse is now the Rovers Tye pub. A lot of these Colchester Borough Farms seem to have been lost to housing developments after the war but it's interesting to see that their names remain in the road names and to find that the farm buildings were adapted to new uses. CP
Interesting, I shall look at that pub in a new light!
Rovers' Tye farm was quite big, going all the way through to Severalls. Friends used to shoot over it with Dick Crick and his family who farmed it till the late 60s or early 70s when they sold the whole lot very profitably for development, and the house became the pub. I think they were tenants who bought the farm from the Borough during the war.
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