|
| Author |
Message |
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject: The Tippeny |
|
|
---- or sometimes Tuppenny, or even Tympany ----- Lodge consisted of two cottages, one on each side of the gateway into the Estate opposite Lowrie's Den roadend.
We used to get eggs there during the war but it was very hush-hush because you WERENAE supposed to ----- rationing, black market etc.!
If you can read the print, this half was the living room cum kitchen and you had to cross to the other cottage for the bedroom!
Look over the dyke ---- you can still see the foundations.
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Anona.Mouse
Site Admin
User is Offline
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 4076
Location: Under the cat, usually
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Was it always a cottage of two halves, as it were, or was it originally two completely separate buildings, do you know? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm not sure. We used to collect our eggs from the folk in the "bedroom" side so that part had become self-contained. I have a feeling that the other "half" had become a store room by then.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Big Davie
Drookit
User is Offline
Joined: 03 Jul 2007
Posts: 188
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: Archeologists at Tympany |
|
|
While out running today i came across two Archeologists working at the
remains of Tympany Cottages. they are carrying out a survey prior to the opening of the new carpark. I couldn't stop long enough to have a good blether as i was starting to get cold. If anyone would like to have a chat with them they will have to be quick, as they finish today. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
No chance for me, although I would have liked to.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
No chance for me, although I would have liked to.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Freepowerboards repeating on my behalf!
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Anona.Mouse
Site Admin
User is Offline
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 4076
Location: Under the cat, usually
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Cut down on the onions in your porridge, Spry.
That's a boggart about the archaeologists, though, not giving us enough notice to interrogate them. But perhaps we'll get some information via one of the usual roundabout routes.
You never know - if they found anything really fascinating, they might be back for more. If nothing else there might be something in the Squeak. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Anona.Mouse wrote: |
Cut down on the onions in your porridge, Spry.
|
Sounds like a recipe for white pudden. A wee drop fat and you're well on the way.
We used to call it pan haggis. It really should be beef dripping but that's no' the done thing nowadays so settle for butter or marg. Oh, and it's better if you use pinhead oatmeal to give a slightly nutty texture. Some may say it's skirlie but it's no' because skirlie is cooked dry.
Who is responsible for this thread straying from the point? It'll be yon Anona again I expect.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Anona.Mouse
Site Admin
User is Offline
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 4076
Location: Under the cat, usually
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The day I start giving cookery advice, the whole lot of you will go on a diet!
But to get back to the point . . . the Tympany / Tippenny Cottages are so recent you'd hardly think there was much need of archaeology. There are photographs of at least one of the cottages in existence.
Unless there were older buildings on the site? Or maybe there was some reason for the split-personality of the two cottages being one that they were looking for? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:01 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Anona.Mouse wrote: |
There are photographs of at least one of the cottages in existence.
|
There's one in the ALBUM for anyone who's interested. Click "Album" at the top of this page!
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bullit
Vergin' on the Verge
User is Offline
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Posts: 8
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: |
|
|
Took a walk up there yesterday(Sun 23rd). Been goin all over the estate for the last 40 yrs and never knew they were there. They are about the size of a modern day garage. Wonder what they are going to do with them ?
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Anona.Mouse
Site Admin
User is Offline
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 4076
Location: Under the cat, usually
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Thanks for those nice clear photos, bullit. I thought they might blitz the remains if they're building a car park, but perhaps they'll keep them for posterity. Although there isn't much left to see now. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Spry
Great Selkie o' Sule Skerry
User is Offline
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Posts: 2216
|
| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Gosh, that's the most I've seen of the Tippenny remains since the cottages were demolished. A few coats of paint and you could almost move in.
I must have a look next time I'm out at Penicuik.
Nice one, bullit!
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bullit
Vergin' on the Verge
User is Offline
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Posts: 8
|
| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
When were they demolished ? Must have been before 1962, when we moved to Penicuik. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
