On March 23rd 2023 the writer was stripping wallpaper at 1 Rock Cottages.. As the soggy wood-chip peeled away, there appeared a pencil inscription written at eye level on the old plaster. Spookily, it was written exactly 150 years before to the day – March 23rd 1873 ! That part of the cottage is thought to date from around 1872, when the two adjoining cottages, numbers 2 and 3 were added by owner George Pearce. The first name appears to be Leonard. Can anyone recognise the second name I wonder ?
Kingston Local History Society 