The History of Charney Bassett

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.

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

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

Inside the mill

Main St/New Road

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Rectory Farm

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

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

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

Aerial view 1969

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

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

Children with School in background (right)

St Peter’s Church

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

Ock Bridge

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Potsherd

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

The Great War

Village cross

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Chapel Lane

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

Ock Bridge

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

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

Cottage on the Green May 1992

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

The Chequers and Smithy

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Never Absent Never Late

The Smithy

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

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

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

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

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

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

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

Axe Head [from River Ock]

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Main St/New Road

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

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

The Manor

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

New Road – School on right

School 1950s

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

Pusey Horn

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

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

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

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

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

Pusey Horn

St Peter’s

Rectory Farm

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

New Road Farm now Barnfield

No32 New Road

Mill and house

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail