The History of Charney Bassett

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

St Peter’s

No 32 New Road

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

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

No32 New Road

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

New Road – School on right

Ock Bridge

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

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

Mill and house

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

Potsherd

The Chequers and Smithy

School 1950s

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Pusey Horn

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

Ock Bridge

Never Absent Never Late

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

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

Children with School in background (right)

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

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

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

The Great War

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 and Shop. Colour Postcard.

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Longworth Road snow 1976

Main St/New Road

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

St Peter’s Church

Village cross

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Inside the mill

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

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Aerial view 1969

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

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

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

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

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Chapel Lane

Charney village cross and War Memorial

The Smithy

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Cottage on the Green May 1992

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

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

Main St/New Road

Rectory Farm

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Axe Head [from River Ock]

The Manor

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.

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Pusey Horn

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

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

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

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

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

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

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

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Rectory Farm

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background