Colonel & Mrs Tighe
From Lacey Green History
Colonel and Mrs Tighe lived at Loosley House, Loosley Row.
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Miss Madge Gomme worked as a between-maid at Loosley House, living in, and therefore subject to the discipline of the Cook who was rather strict . Cook did not like the girls going out in the evening, but if they could get out they did, and one night they came back to find that Cook had locked them out. Loosley House has a flat roof in one part and as luck would have it some workmen lad left a ladder near, which these girls used to gain access to the roof where a door had luckily been left unlocked.
Madge remembers that Cook's face was a picture next morning when they went downstairs as usual.
There used to be weekend parties and many dinner parties as the Tighes did a lot of entertaining and the first time Miss Madge had to serve in the dining room she managed to pour soup down some unfortunate gentleman's neck and could not be persuaded to go back into the room after she had made her escape.
During the first World War Colonel Tighe volunteered again in the Enniskillen Fusiliers, being Irish, and the family removed to Pirbright and took a house, Madge going with them for part of the war. Apart from that she has not moved around much in service, only moving with the family eventually to Ellesborough until Mrs. Tighe died and the family broke up, when she returned to Loosley Row.
Report by Dennis Claydon. The photo on the right was taken in 1926 or 1927 at The Womens Institute Pageant at Bradenham Manor. Sadly a heavy thunderstorm spoiled proceedings.
Identified by Dennis Claydon. From left to right are Mrs Tighe, Mrs Riley, Mrs Harold Lacey, ? ? ? ? Gladys Brown, Mrs Drage, Clara Stevens, Gladys Hickman, Mrs Allen (Post Office) Miss Geraldine Tighe, grand-daughter of Mrs Tighe, Rene Brown, ? Connie Gomme, Rosalind Ginger, Francis Dormer, Connie Lacey, Tighe grand-daughter, Nancy Brown, Winnie Drage, Jack Drage, Tighe grand-daughter, Mary Smith, Babara Barefoot.