People
Within this section you will find historical photographs of people from the village. Some will be very old, others from perhaps 10 or 20 years ago.
We would really value information about any of the photos including dates, names, little stories, however trivial since it all adds to the interest. Use the comment form at the bottom of the page.
Doreen
Doreen has lived in the village for the whole of her life. Her grandmother owned the Crown cottages (opposite the Inn with the Well). Doreen lived originally in the house now known as Woodbine cottage but on the death of her grandmother, she took ownership of other crown cottages, moving to Roseneath (No 1 crown cottages).
Here are a few pictures she provided.
Photographer: Doreen
Potato Harvest 1940 - ‘Dig for Victory’
These photographs were taken by Oliver Frost. They show the potato harvest in The Manor House kitchen garden. At the time there were 16-18 people living in the house, including family, cook/housekeeper, between 6 and 10 evacuee children from London, cowman, and gardener. The second picture is of the head gardener, Frank Arslett, a junior gardener H Lewis, and Joyce Frost (then Joyce Montagu).
Photographer: Oliver Frost
Rev Dunn, Tim Ormond and Mrs Kinneir
A newspaper cutting from 1972, of Rev Dunn and Tim Ormond presenting Mrs Kinneir a silver platter on her retirement. Mrs Kinneir was a teacher at the school for 25 years.
Photographer: n/a
Comments
I lived in crown cottages untill i was about 4 or 5 years old and still remember the outside loo,leaving to live in Liddiards Green,I also remember Mrs Kinnear she was my teacher and always remember her as a very kind woman and her husband also use to visit the school occasionally
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