Wayside Cottage
From Lacey Green History
Wayside Cottage, Main Road, Lacey Green, (southwards of Ardengrove), was owned by Uriah Dell and Rebecca Carter (nee Dell) who lived at Ardengrove
Wayside was a small cottage, with a window low to road, it was let sometimes as a shop.
Pre 1872 it was a briefly a butcher's shop run by Albert Floyd.
click Albert & Julia Floyd.
Wayside Cottage was inherited by Uriah Dell. click Uriah & Rebecca Dell for Uriah's life story.
Uriah's Will
Uriah left his property to his executors in trust for Rebecca Carter Dell, his wife, to have the income as long as she continued his widow and such of their children as should not be capable of maintaining themselves and after the death or remarriage of his wife to be sold.
circa 1900 it was let to ? Tilbury. as a bakers Shop
Rebecca Dell died in 1909.
Her executors sold to the Reverend William Robson, of the Vicarage, Lacey Green . The cottage and shop with outbuildings, yard and premises, then in the occupation of Herbert & Alice Witney. (By 1911 census Herbert Witney is a grocer shopkeeper in Loosley Row.
1939 Register (census) Wayside Cottage. Ralph L Biggs, Jessie M Biggs, Joan F Biggs, Edwin F Biggs, Raymond G Biggs, 2 absent for war. click Ralph & Jessie Biggs for
In 1960's it was lived in by Ted Biggs & his sister Joan. click Ted & Audrey Biggs for more about Ted
It was demolished in the late 1900's and replaced . Subsequently the new Wayside Cottage was also replaced with a much larger property,