Hi again Smiler

Here is some of my research about the cottage. Unfortunately the map I refer to, from the Lloyd George survey in 1910 -11, and the photos, don't copy into this message box. Let me know if you would like me to email them to you.

Aunt Vera was my great Aunt.

"Aunt Vera was recorded in the 1911 census as a granddaughter and a scholar, with grandparents Henry and Lucy, and Uncles Sidney, Roger and Evan.

We now know that the place where they were living was one half of the cottage now called "the Tilt". Here is a map showing the important plot 131. It is linked with a pink brace to an unnumbered plot which was actually plot 132. This is the cottage - shown hatched and divided into two dwellings, with only a very small amount of land immediately in front of it. Robert Bennett owned both plots 131 and 132 but Henry King was recorded as the occupier for plot 131. In the census return of 1911 Robert Bennett and his family are listed consecutively with the Kings, which adds further weight to the evidence that they lived next door to each other.

Robert Bennett was a collier. He bought the cottages in 1902. He died in 1937 at which point the cottages passed to his widow Maggie Annie Bennett. She was quite a lot younger than her husband (she was his second wife) and didn’t die until 1957. She sold one of the cottages to her son Ivor in 1954 and after her death the remaining cottage was sold by another son Ernest to Ivor so Ivor then owned both. I am only mentioning this because it suggests that throughout the time that Mummy stayed in the Plump the cottage that had been occupied by her Aunt Vera in 1911 was still owned by people called Bennett and that they continued to live next door.

There are the remains of what is thought to have been an explosives store for the quarry downhill of the Tilt. This is stone-arched and set into the incline of the hill. This is how the owner describes it

"There are stone steps leading down into it and at the top is a very clear grove along the top step where a door or gate used to sit and a drilled hole where the door or gate was pivoted." "