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January 2007
Bredenbury Home Guard, 1940's The
design of the calendar gives plenty of room for daily and monthly notes,
and one can see the previous and next month dates at a glance. It
is 30 cm wide and 42 cm deep. |
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February 2007
The Garage on Bringsty Common 1930's.
Livestock kept the fern down in those days. |
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March 2007
The photograph shows Mrs Elizabeth Tristan Essex Potter with
her son Lesley Essex Potter by her side. It dates from 1888 and is thought
to be at Stanford Court, Stanford Bishop. |
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April 2007
Lincester in 1932 |
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May 2007
Sheep shearing at Great Wacton, 1930. |
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June 2007
The Stephens Family at Sapey Mill, circa 1885 |
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July 2007
Mrs Roper butter making at Lincester, circa 1930. |
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August 2007
This hopyard in Acton Beauchamp may have been using the
Butcher system of wire-work invented in Kent in 1875. The kettle hangs
over the fire ready to replenish the teapot, however Nurse Powell has
bought her own thermos flask!
Note - our book on Hop-picking has now been reprinted |
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September 2007
Hop picking at Bishops Frome in 1892. |
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October 2007
Cruxwell Street, otherwise known as Angel Place or more
recently as Top of Town.
The only buildings now standing there are Peppercorn and The
Old Dairy. |
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November 2007
C.L.Enderby of Munderfield Harold, about 1898. |
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December 2007
Taken at The Wootons, Acton Beauchamp in 1910. The car is an
'Alldays and Onions' make, dated 1906. John Ernest Cook of The Hope House,
Stanford Bishop licensed the car but the driver is thought to be John's
father, Alfred Cook. Dorothy Potter, aged about 7, is the passenger. |
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January 2008
The Live & Let Live, Whitbourne in 1914; with Mr and Mrs
S. Lewis and their daughter Olive. |
