The History of Charney Bassett

Sheds at Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

The Manor

The Horn Inn [Sheila Terry]

Village cross

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

Postcard of Charney, the village cross. No date.

The Bridge on The Bridle Path to Stanford in the Vale

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

Clay Balls [from Mill Cottage]

Brook Cottage (No 14) Post Office

Ock Bridge

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

The Smithy

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.

St Peter’s Church Tympanum

Helen Mewett by R. Ock, Mill in background

New Road Farm now Barnfield

Main St/New Road

Primrose Villa and the two thatched cottages [Sheila Terry]

The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

School 1950s

Village Cross and Shop. Colour Postcard.

Rectory Farm [Sheila Terry]

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 [Packer Collection 1920-1940]

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

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

Charlie Browning in the Smithy, 1919-1920

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

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

Village Cross [Sheila Terry]

A Singer Junior Tourer New Road

Postcard of Charney Church. No date.

Robert ‘Bobby’ Woolford – Carriers [Shirley Dore]

Village Green [Henry Taunt 1860-1914]

John Whitehorn [tomb in St Peter’s graveyard]

Barnfield, Brook Cottage, Byways 1963

Maud Ody – ‘The Length of the Road’

St Peter’s Church COLOUR Postcard

Frances Chapman ‘Stone Room’ Rectory Farm

New Road – School on right

Charney Manor and Garage from Bridge

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

Machine gun loop-hole [in Manor garden wall]

No 28 New Road [Shirley Dore]

Pusey Horn

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

Rectory Farm

Autumn 1937. Haymaking at Charney Bassett.

Main St/New Road

Off for a drive! Maud Ody front passenger

Chapel Lane

The Chequers and Smithy

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

St Peter’s Church Doorway Detail

Charney village cross and War Memorial

Inside the mill

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

St Peter’s Church and the Manor 1939

Cottages on the green [Shirley Dore]

Off for a drive! Maud Ody centre

Beside The Chequers [Shirley Dore]

The Chequers, Smithy and Village Cross [Shirley Dore]

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

Longworth Road snow 1976

Potsherd

Rectory Farm

Auntie Emmie & Bill Clarke 1921 at 25 New Road

The Hunt goes through Charney. No Date.

Village Green and Inns [Packer Collection 1910-]1940

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

Ock Bridge

Group outside 30 & 31 New Road

Main St, Rectory Farm House on rt [OCL]

Cottage on the Green May 1992

Postcard, view of Charney and bridge. No date.

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

Primrose Villa and Cottages

Louisa & Albert Haines’ wedding 1910

Aerial view 1969

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

St Peter’s

Mill and house

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

The Mill from Lyford Road 1939

Main St looking North. Rectory Farm on right.

Pusey Horn

The Great War

Never Absent Never Late

Children with School in background (right)