Colonel & Mrs Tighe

Colonel Tighe's manservant

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.