Description:The trees were cut down and taken to John S. Hickman's Timber Company in Wolverhampton. The Parkes family would collect timber from as far afield as the Welsh border, on a sub-contract basis for Hickman.
Jim and Arthur Parkes and their families lived in a cottage in the cherry orchard, and also in an old single deck tramcar sited along the hedge on the site of the present-day Noverton in Nurton Hill Road.