PENRHOS TOLL HOUSE page 2
INTERESTING SERIES OF EVENTS!
1. During the 1950's a new front door was fitted to the Tollhouse, replacing the solid oak door which was 135 years old. The key for the old door was 9"long and 2"wide at the top.
2. Gas was piped along the A5 & this provided gas lighting,
replacing candle light and oil lamps. This story was covered by "The Liverpool Daily Post".
3. Water pipes were run into the house to provide cold running water.
4. A Keegan & Flannigan's bottling stores lorry with crates and bottles, once crashed into the house.
5. A steam train emptied its tinder box and the hot cinders landed in the Tollhouse garden and caused a huge fire, which encircled the Tollhouse and though undamaged structurally, the exterior was blackened and
discoloured and had to be re-painted.
6. Another time a car coming from the Valley direction, turned the corner too fast and crashed into the wall underneath the kitchen window, destroying a bush that grew there. Though the car was badly damaged, the stone walls of the Tollhouse, being made of solid stone, withstood the impact.
THE TOLLHOUSE - A PERSONAL FOCUS
Anne Hindley, whose grandfather and father worked as gamekeepers on the Penrhos Estate, lived at the Tollhouse with her father from 1945 until her father's death in 1960.
Anne's father bought the Tollhouse from Lady Stanley for £350, which was payable in weekly instalments of £1 and was deducted from his wages as gamekeeper. Her father was a keen market gardener and grew vegetables, fruit and flowers for sale. Anne's mother kept boarding kennels including a quarantine section. The family was self-sufficient, eating their own vegetables, chickens, ducks, guinea fowl, rabbits and pigeons. There was a goat for milk and Anne's father was a keen goat for milk and Anne's father was a keen fisherman, so there was often freshly-caught fish for the table.
TOLL HOUSE RECIPES - LEMON MERINGUE PIE
INGREDIENTS:-
6oz shortcuts pastry for 8"flan tin
FILLING:-
2oz Caster Sugar
Pinch of salt
1oz Cornflower
Small can evaporated milk
Quarter pint of water
2 eggs (yolk for filling, whites for meringue)
Juice and rind of 1 lemon
MERINGUE:-
4oz Caster Sugar
2 egg whites
METHOD:-
Bake pastry blind
Mix all ingredients in a bowl
Pour onto pastry base
Whip egg whites and sugar to peaks then top pie
Cook for 45 minutes at 140 C
CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT
CHEESECAKE
INGREDIENTS:-
1 Packet digestive biscuits for base
FILLING:-
4oz Hazelnuts
8oz Margarine
8oz Caster Sugar
12oz Cream Cheese
12oz Plain Chocolate
1 tablespoon drinking chocolate
METHOD:-
Bake biscuit base and put in an 8" round flan tin
Toast hazelnuts, rub off skin and chop finely
Beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy
Beat cream cheese, melt chocolate and cool
Add to mixture and nut
Spread over biscuit base