The History of Charney Bassett

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

The Smithy

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Rectory Farm

Home Farm and the Coxes c1930 Rear – John (1912), Frederick Front – Elizabeth, Bid Ernest (1916), Henry 1914

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

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

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Axe Head [from River Ock]

Longworth Road snow 1976

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Inside the mill

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

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

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Rectory Farm

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

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

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.

School 1950s

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

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Main St/New Road

The Manor

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

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

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Ock Bridge

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

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

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

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Pusey Horn

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Village cross

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

Main St/New Road

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

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

The Chequers and Smithy

The Green from The Smithy

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

No32 New Road

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Never Absent Never Late

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

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

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

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

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

Aerial view 1969

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Children with School in background (right)

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

New Road – School on right

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

St Peter’s Church

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

Chapel Lane

Mill and house

St Peter’s

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.

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

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

Pusey Horn

Ock Bridge

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

The Great War

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

No 32 New Road

New Road Farm now Barnfield

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Potsherd

Cottage on the Green May 1992