The Cottage was the home of the Hart
family.
Mrs. Hart ran a sweet and confectionary shop from her front room and
it was very popular with the young people --she always stocked the
small cheap sorts that the company --Trebor -- used to manufacture
--one penny a time !!
Mr. Hart was the second Royal Mail postman to Dan Butler,
and also acted as the local Vet; and treated the small
animals that were sick --in a barn type building in his back
yard. Not a place for the sqeamish!
On the left, just out of the picture was Arthur Manning's Garage and
workshop. Click HERE for more information. He employed a
mechanic-Fred Cleal who lived at Laymore.
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| Mrs Stroud (on the left) is delivering milk to Fore
Street by handcart (on right), from Broadenham Farm . Milk was
delivered in this way throughout the village.The other lady in
the picture is Cath Loaring (later to become Mrs Griffin). She
is carrying a bag of lace repairs. The Cottage now known
(2013) as Long Thatches is
on the left. In 1938 it was Nos. 1&2 'The Cottages'. The front
door of No2. is now a window. On the left, past the
stand-pipe (mains water supply) are cottages that were
demolished in 1951 to make way for social housing after the war. |
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In Fore Street, above the Manse were the three
'council houses'. When compared with the cottages in the
village,
where most people lived , they were the height of luxury, with
electricity and mains water & drainage! The Longs, Downs and
the Grabham families lived there in the thirties. |
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| High Street has not changed very much in appearance.
In 1938 , Tom Phelps lived with his bride Gladys Bridle, in the
most distant cottage. Next lived Phil & Ada Brown, and Joe
Philips lived in the next and Mrs Hodder-Philips lived in the
nearest cottage. Now Peter and Mary Pye live in the two top
cottages, known now as Badger Cottage, and the whole of the
lower section is known as Lime Kiln House is owned by Anne &
Keith Portsmore. High Street leads onto the site of the old Lime
Kiln, which later on, prior to WWII was the village rubbish tip.
Alf Robbins, the haulier coalman, who lived in Fore Street
collected rubbish for dumping. |
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| These cottages were demolished in the early
nineteen eighties, after being unused for many years. In about
1997, Church House was
built next to where the cottages stood. The Monkey Puzzle tree located in the
cemetery can be clearly seen, not looking very different from
how it looks in 2012. |
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