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Sylvia Rich writes: Eli & Ada Rumsey (nee Drury) would have been living here with daughter Vi. Eli died in 1955, aged 82 and I believe Vi continued living there until her death in 1976, aged 71. You can see a picture of Eli Rumsey in the wedding photo below....
Saffron Cottage, Church Road. Wonderfully we know who the people are in the picture. The date on the bottom of the picture appears to be 1911 and the people are "Grandmother" [1. Description provided by Joan Clarke/Rose/Mumby's sister] Emily Brooks and Mrs Carrie...
The cottage, now called The Gate, was for many years the village garage. It gets it’s current name because it was originally one of the several public houses or ‘beerhousees’ in the village. We know this unfortunately because there was a murder there in 1900. However...
This cottage still exists although the wall and fence in the picture no longer exist. Originally a farmhouse and the wall would have helped keep the animals from wandering too close to the door. (Photo above from Mrs Sue Miles) We have another photograph of the...
This postcard was posted 1949 although the view - with what looks like road mending stone in front of the thatched barn - looks a good decade earlier..
This was probably taken in the 1940s. Milkman Charlie Cane poses with Robert Chambers' milkcart in Crawley End in front of Peacock Cottage. (From the Bruce Drury Collection)
This view of "Dormers" is probably from the 1920s or '30s, although this view looked very similar as recently as the 1960s. The road is much wider now with modern houses on either side. The thatched building on the right no longer exists. Rather strangely it almost...
This lovely old picture from 1900 shows Crawley End. Note no railings around Rooks Pond. Left to right can be seen the Chapel, Chapel Cottage, Manana, Phoenix Cottage, Rose Cottage, Cobblers and Faerie Cottage. (With thanks to the Rogers family collection for this...
This view of Primrose Cottage could be as recent as the late 1970s and is probably no older than the 1960s. There is a modern rotary type clothes lines in front of the window far left. The lean-to conservatory and the corrugated steel entrance porch has been...
Wire Farm c 1914. Chapel Cottage is in the distance and the Chapel itself can just be seen on the left. The pond appears muddy and the slipway approach to it is clearly visible. The pond would have been very useful to the farm for washing down carts as well as...
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