Places
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Rose Cottage
Rose Cottage, Crawley End. This cottage is still connected to Ramblers next door as the original two cottages and Rose Cottage retains its south facing front door. In the photograph above you can see both Ramblers and Rose Cottage. Fred Davies who has lived in...
Chrishall Grange and Mr Samuel Jonas
Chrishall Grange is the first part of the village of Chrishall that you come through if approaching the village from the main A505 road. As far as I know it has always been a large farming estate and, as the obituary for Mr Jonas below shows, it has been farmed by...
Phoenix Cottage
The photograph above was taken around 1970. You can see the more modern house of Whitebeams just to the right of Pheonix cottage. The black barn in front has long gone and now the cottage is next to the Engleric estate of five houses. Above this photograph is from...
Mapletons Chrishall
Mapletons is a thatched cottage set back from the road of Crawley End on the right hand side when heading north of the village. Unusally for the village this cottage faces west. Most of the old cottages faced south to catch the sun but Mapletons is next to a small...
Crawley End Chrishall – sheep grazing
This unusual view (1980s) is from the field on the east side of Mill Causeway looking at the backs of the former council houses. Rosemarie Gant (Davies) remembers driving her small first car, a renault 5, along Crawley End and meeting the sheep which were being...
Mill Causeway Cobblers
The little cobblers shop on Mill Causeway looks to be busy on the morning this photograph was taken.
Crawley End north
View north: the car - an Austin 3000 - suggests this photo was taken in the 1970s and predates the building of the council houses and the little close Engleric, which now exists where the car is parked.
Cobblers Cottage
Cobblers circa 1960: despite the run down appearance the main cottage appears to be in reasonable repair although the rendering appears to have been recently made good. This property's appearance is quite different now and the thatched annex, which was the shoe...
Rooks Pond
This photograph was taken circa 1930. On the left is Chapel Cottage recently rethatched. Primrose Cottage is just visible behind the telegraph pole. Cobblers, at the end of the pond, has since been extended and rendered in a peach colour. Faerie Cottage is on the...
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