Hi RonnieW,
The dovecote is at the bottom of Gateacre Brow outside
the Black Bull, it is a beautiful sand stone building and used
to have a font of some kind in the centre you stand on this
and get into the loft,where there were teirs of roost boxes
in the six sides of the cote roof these where for raising squabs
for the table, if I remember rightly a squab weighed more than
the adults at ten days old.
Most of these great estates had a dove cote of some kind
I think the the cote in gateacre was called the Wilson cote ?
dont tell anyone that I got my first two pigeons from here
at the age of thirteen in 1946.
Cheer's,
Tippo.
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Thanks Cadfael.
Tippo.
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