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November 15, 2017
April 2013
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. →
November 15, 2017
March 2013
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 →
November 15, 2017
December 2012
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 →
November 15, 2017
November 2012
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 →
November 15, 2017
October 2012
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 →
November 15, 2017
September 2012
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. →
November 15, 2017
August 2012
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 →