The History of Charney Bassett

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

Never Absent Never Late

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

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 COLOUR Postcard

The Chequers and Smithy

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) Date: c1950 Location: Cornmarket Street, Oxford, Barclays Bank

Mill and house

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

Rectory Farm

Main St/New Road

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Pusey Horn

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Chapel Lane

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

Pusey Horn

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Children with School in background (right)

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

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

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

St Peter’s Church

Cottage on the Green May 1992

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Longworth Road snow 1976

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

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

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at 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.

No 32 New Road

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

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

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

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

Rectory Farm

New Road – School on right

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

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

Ock Bridge

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

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

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

The Smithy

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

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

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

The Great War

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

New Road Farm now Barnfield

The Manor

Home Farm and the Coxs

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

No32 New Road

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

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

Village cross

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

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

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

St Peter’s

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

School 1950s

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

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

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

Ock Bridge

Inside the mill

Potsherd

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.