The History of 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.

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

St Peter’s

Mill and house

The Great War

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

Rectory Farm

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

No 32 New Road

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

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

Cripps and Sons (Vic Hodgkins) [unknown location]

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

The Smithy

School 1950s

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

St Peter’s Church

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

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

Inside the mill

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

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

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

The Manor

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

Aerial view 1969

Children with School in background (right)

Never Absent Never Late

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

Village Cross [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

Potsherd

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

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Pusey Horn

Chapel Lane

The Chequers and Smithy

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

Village cross

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Cottage on the Green May 1992

New Road Farm now Barnfield

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

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

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

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

Main St/New Road

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Ock Bridge

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

No32 New Road

St Peter’s Church Stained Glass

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

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

New Road – School on right

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

Pusey Horn

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

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

Ock Bridge

Rectory Farm

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

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

Axe Head [from River Ock]

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

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

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]