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This is one of the older photos in the collection and it looks like a scene from a Thomas Hardy novel! The women has a traditional rural apron and the man leaning on the fence seems to be wearing a smock. →

The person who took this photograph wrote “The Retreat” on the back. Perhaps it was a place in the country for a middle class family from town – perhaps this is them in the front garden. Dad is wearing →

This month’s photo shows the “Railway Tavern” which, as the name suggests, was right next to the station. This building (now a private house) is still there just by the guided busway. We would estimate →

This month we see the staff of Haynes Bros standing outside their shop – the shop that is now Co-operative Stores opposite the end of Church Street. This photo has been dated at 1927 by the grandson →

Milford Jeeps, who appears in the picture outside Berry Cottage sent the following letter: In 1921 my family and I moved to Berry Cottage, exchanging homes with Gordon Spackman's family. My father was →

Here is photo of a splendid car taken in the 1930’s. It is parked outside a rather nice house with railings. Both the house and the adjacent building still exist in the village but they are hard to recognize. →

Last month we showed this picture of two cottages on the site of the current library. This resulted in letters from two (very) long time village residents. The first from Milford Jeeps and the second our →

Dear Editor, I received a letter from Glenda Tillyard in relation to the picture of the children with the Coronation Mugs. She has given permission to use her photo and story in the magazine and I have →

It would be hard to identify this picture today except for the building on the very left side. It is, of course, the old Methodist Chapel next to the Village Green which was closed in 2000 and was converted →

With all the celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at the start of June I was reminded of a tradition in past years. During the Golden Jubilee in 2002 all the village children were given a “Jubilee →