The History of Charney Bassett

The Granary (since demolished) at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Charney village cross and War Memorial

The Chequers and Smithy

No 32 New Road

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Home on leave, Vic Hodgkins on Roy’s motorbike 1942/3

Postcard view of Charney and river and one of the thatched cottages at the entrance to the village to the left of the Church. No date.

Pusey Horn

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Village Cross, Rectory Farm and The Horn sign [Jack Chapman]

Main St/New Road

Potsherd

St Peter’s Church

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

The Barn (on the green) of Rectory Farm looking north towards the green. [Sheila Terry]

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

The Manor

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

New Road (unsealed surface). No 25 left foreground.

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Ock Bridge

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

Charlie Browning, his wife Laura and their daughter Ivy outside the Smithy, 1920s

New Road – School on right

Charlie Browning, his wife Laura and their daughter Ivy outside the Smithy. 1920s. ‘CJ Browning Shoeing & General Smith’

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

The Smithy

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

Inside the mill

The Great War

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

Chapel Lane

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Post Office and Shop, Tilly Godfrey’s. Amberley Cottage.

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

Aerial view 1969

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

The Orchard Rectory Farm, now Orchard Close [Sheila Terry]

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Straddlestones, Main Street Mid 1920s. Maud Ody far right. Note the single shutter hinging upwards as mentioned in Maud Ody’s book P35.

Postcard of Charney, Chequers pub sign, Smithy, and village cross. No date.

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Children with School in background (right)

Postcard of 14 Charney (Brook Cottage) as the PO and Stores. No date, but this card was sent from Charney to London on 25/08/1930

Main Street/ New Road junction. Post Card sent 1965.

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Ock Bridge

Mill and house

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Rectory Farm

First motorised vehicle in Charney George Bungay [Ruth Gerring]. Identified as probably a Triumph by the National Motorcycle Museum.

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

No32 New Road

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

Main St, note power lines and sign (to Post Office?) [Sheila Terry]

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Never Absent Never Late

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

School 1950s

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

Bought and brought from Hanney – Ruth Gerring 2nd from left

Pusey Horn

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Cottage on the Green May 1992

Axe Head [from River Ock]

St Peter’s

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Rectory Farm