Date:21st of August 1907
Description:Colonel Cotes wrote to Menzies again the following week about the laundry roof at Pitchford, asking Menzies ‘what you think it had be better be roofed with’. Colonel Cotes suggests ‘blue tiles to match the stables- if the slates cannot be used again’. The letters reveal that Colonel Cotes was experiencing problems with drunken tenants in Shrewsbury. He writes ‘I think I shall stop the road up to the Oak at night – which will stop a lot of the drunkhards coming down & making a noise at night in front of the hall’.
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The Sutherland Papers contain many bundles of correspondence relating to the Cotes estate in Eccleshall. ...
A number of letters from Colonel Cotes refer to work which was going on at Pitchford Hall in the early ...
Colonel Cotes wrote to Menzies again the following week about the laundry roof at Pitchford, asking ...
A further letter from Colonel Cotes refers again to the Owens in Eccleshall. Complaining about George ...
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