Home, that is, to the Wildings of Mobberley.

And although it was bulldozed to make way for a garage years ago, the last occupants still live within walking distance.

"We are all still in Mobberley and are quite close together," said Dorothy Butler, who contacted the Knutsford Guardian after resident Harry Beggs' appeal for information about Woodbine Cottage last week.

He said one of his relations, Sarah Bolton, had stayed at the cottage sometime between 1915 and 1920.

But he had no idea where it was.

Dorothy - the youngest of Robert and Dorothy Wilding's three children - was born in the cottage.

"We mainly lived in a room at the back of the house because the front room was for visitors," said Dorothy, who is now 53 and lives in Edenfield Close.

Her brother Clifford also rang the Knutsford Guardian.

He said he'd lived in the four-bedroomed cottage in Town Lane, Mobberley, for more than 20 years.

It was a good, family home, he said, even though they survived without running water and electricity.

"We used oil lamps which were quite reliable and we had a water storage tank at the back, but you could only use that for washing," said Clifford, now 66.

When Dorothy and Clifford's mum died in 1971, the children had already left home.

Shortly after the house was bought and knocked down to make way for Eden's garage.

But the memory of it lives on and not just in the Wilding family.

Mobberley residentKen Davies remembered raiding an orchard at the back of the house and Tony Usher told how he loved strolling past the 'impressive' house on his way to school.

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