"Eyesores...
Posted Fri, Feb 5th 2010, 14:02
... Are knocking nearby trade - council". Said a headline in the Saffron Walden Reporter this week.
Your council is concerned that buildings that continue to be left empty in the village are falling into disrepair and are damaging to the economic vitality of the village. The Three Colts public house and ex B&R carpets shop on Cambridge road are both becoming eyesores and if left to decay further may well end up like that other well known 'dangerous structure', Mont House in High Lane.
There is not a lot the Parish or District Councils can do about empty commercial properties except appeal to the landlord, so the Parish council has written to the owner of these properties to ask about his intentions and offer its assistance.
Posted by Edmond Mansion on 8/3/11
My uncle Robert McGregor lodged in Mont House during the late forties, and fifties when the house was I beleive the property of a Miss Enid(?) Wilson. I recall visiting as a child when the house was very elegently furnished and there were beautiful gardens. I recall Miss Wilson had a house built in the grounds off Brewery Lane and they moved there. I assume Mont House was sold.
It is very sad to see the picture of the house as it is now.
My uncle subsequently married the house keeper Amy Patmore and they moved to a small house in Blysthswood Gardens and he died in 1993