The History of Charney Bassett

Rectory Farm

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

No 32 New Road

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

Main St/New Road

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

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

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Main St/New Road

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

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

Never Absent Never Late

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

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

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

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

Ock Bridge

New Road Farm now Barnfield

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Potsherd

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

New Road – School on right

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

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.

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

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

The Smithy

Children with School in background (right)

Pusey Horn

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

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

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

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

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

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

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

St Peter’s

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Longworth Road snow 1976

The Chequers and Smithy

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

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

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

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

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

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

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

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

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

Aerial view 1969

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

No32 New Road

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Chapel Lane

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Mill and house

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

The Great War

Cottage on the Green May 1992

School 1950s

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Ock Bridge

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Village cross

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

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

St Peter’s Church

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

Inside the mill

Axe Head [from River Ock]

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

Pusey Horn

Rectory Farm

The Manor

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]