The History of Charney Bassett

Pusey Horn

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

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

Axe Head [from River Ock]

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

Potsherd

The Manor

Longworth Road snow 1976

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Primrose Villa and Cottages

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

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

New Road – School on right

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

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

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Never Absent Never Late

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

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

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

No32 New Road

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

Pusey Horn

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

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.

Children with School in background (right)

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Rectory Farm

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

New Road Farm now Barnfield

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Chapel Lane

Ock Bridge

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

St Peter’s

Ock Bridge

Aerial view 1969

Inside the mill

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

Rectory Farm

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

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

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

The Chequers and Smithy

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

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Main St/New Road

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

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.

Mill and house

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

The Great War

Main St/New Road

No 32 New Road

School 1950s

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

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Charney village cross and War Memorial

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

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Village cross

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

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

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

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

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

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

Cottage on the Green May 1992

St Peter’s Church

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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