The History of Charney Bassett

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Primrose Villa and Cottages

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

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

Ock Bridge

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

The Chequers and Smithy

The Smithy

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

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

No 32 New Road

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

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

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

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Mill and house

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

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

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

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Inside the mill

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

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

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Chapel Lane

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Rectory Farm

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

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

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.

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Pusey Horn

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

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Cottage on the Green May 1992

The Great War

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

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

Children with School in background (right)

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Main St/New Road

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

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

Potsherd

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Aerial view 1969

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

Rectory Farm

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

Main St/New Road

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

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

Ock Bridge

Village cross

School 1950s

New Road – School on right

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

Longworth Road snow 1976

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

St Peter’s

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

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Pusey Horn

No32 New Road

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Never Absent Never Late

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

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

St Peter’s Church

Axe Head [from River Ock]

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

The Manor