Hoe and Worthing Archive: Keeper's Cottage

 

Keeper's Cottage was a bungalow     which stood where the house of the     same name now is. It was numbered 5     in the sequence of cottages.         Jack Last was gamekeeper for     E. C. Keith from 1948 to 1952.     In his memoir, Life and Thoughts of a     Countryman, he describes coming to     Hoe as gamekeeper. There were three     shoots a season and he went loading     for 'the Boss' or for Michael, his son, at     other shoots locally.     During his time at Hoe he helped plant     three woods with the gardener and Mr     Holmes and Mr Burton.     "Spraying started about this time with     the employment of 'a new young man     with modern ideas'. Most of the     farmland was sprayed causing great     losses to game eggs and hedgerow     birds."    Later, Charles Holmes was gamekeeper for the Keiths and lived at the bungalow, after that at No. 14. This painting by William Cooper shows him loading for xxx Keith.     The wedding of Norma Holmes of Keeper's Bungalow,     1963. Note that the reception was held in the Reading     Room, (the Parish Room) Hoe for seventy guests. Edward and Dolly Butters moved back to No.5 when Edward retired from farm work.