Our old friend and permanent resident in the house, T F Pritchard, continues to provide us with interest and research. Talks about him always produce a lively discussion and often some new information.

On a recent church photographing expedition we saw a monument to Dame Mary Smythe which we have often thought was Pritchard, but annoyingly there is no name on it.

We did manage to get a glimpse of the tree house at Pitchford through the autumnal foliage and were glad to see that it is still standing in the branches of its lime tree after more than two hundred years.