The History of Charney Bassett

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

The Chequers and Smithy

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

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

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

The Manor

Axe Head [from River Ock]

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Rectory Farm

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Ock Bridge

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

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

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Potsherd

St Peter’s

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

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

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

Inside the mill

No 32 New Road

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

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

Aerial view 1969

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

The Great War

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Mill and house

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

No32 New Road

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

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

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

Charney village cross and War Memorial

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

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

Never Absent Never Late

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Main St/New Road

Ock Bridge

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

School 1950s

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

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

Pusey Horn

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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

New Road – School on right

Cottage on the Green May 1992

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Chapel Lane

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

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 cross

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

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

Longworth Road snow 1976

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

Main St/New Road

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Children with School in background (right)

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Rectory Farm

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Primrose Villa and Cottages

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

The Smithy

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

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

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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