The History of Charney Bassett

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

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

Pusey Horn

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Children with School in background (right)

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

St Peter’s

Aerial view 1969

Charney village cross and War Memorial

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.

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Never Absent Never Late

Rectory Farm

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

Pusey Horn

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Main St/New Road

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

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

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

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

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Ock Bridge

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

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

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.

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

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

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

No 32 New Road

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

School 1950s

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Inside the mill

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

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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

Main St/New Road

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

New Road – School on right

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

Rectory Farm

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

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

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

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

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

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

The Manor

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

Mill and house

The Chequers and Smithy

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Cottage on the Green May 1992

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Axe Head [from River Ock]

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

No32 New Road

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

The Great War

Chapel Lane

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

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

St Peter’s Church

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

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

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Village cross

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Ock Bridge

Potsherd

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