Pentlow Pictures

A collection of old postcards of past Pentlow

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To get pictures of a size suitable for printing or close inspection click on the picture or the accompanying text. Please remember that we are very much on the lookout for pictures of old Pentlow in order to make a comprehensive collection here.
The photograhs themselves are scanned in sufficient quality to provide an A4 photograph is a quality that is almost indistinguishable from the original

The back of Pentlow Mill, possibly around 1949.	Pentlow School. c1900, funded by the rector. The building on the right is the previous school	The floodwalk over the Stour Valley. There was once a ford on this spot. There has been a bridge over the stour here for at least four hundred years	An early tinted picture of Pentlw Mill, showing the characteristic Lucam , and revealing the back of Cavendish in the distance including Joseph Garret's maltings next to the congragational church	A classic view of the Saxon church. It was heavily restored in the fourteenth and ninteenth century, but retains its semicircular asp, and therefore its incredible acoustics
The Kempe memorial at Pentlow Church	The inside of Pentlow Church	The famous saxon font at Pentlow Church.	The large meadow in front of Pentlow Mill. Still a well-known landmark This tinted photograph was taken in the 1880s	Pentlow Bridge, built in 1887 The crast of Essex County Council is on one side and the Suffolk crest is on the other. It is listed.
Now called Stable House, this was built for the Johnson family who worked on the Hall farm and looked after the church. They supplied two generations of Sextons for the church. Mrs Johnson and son Reg shown	A view of Pentlow Church once in the possession of Reg Johnson, the Sexton.	The millar stands proudly outside the front of the mill house.	Pentlow Church is built on top of a large tumulus on the valley floor, in a sitr full of cropmarks from bronze-age gound-barrows etc.	The Sluicegates at Pentlow Mill
Pentlow Mill, a view from the bridge showing the road down to the tailrace	Pentlow Mill, in the 1930s, showing how vans had replaced wagons in transporting the grain. A sack is in the process of being hoisted. The old footbridge over the river is shown	Pentlow Hall Farm, now known as Pentlow House. The view has changed surprisingly little	Blacksmiths Row. The houses were later rendered by a retired railwayman who wished them to look a bit more 'modern'.	Rectory lane, Pentlow
A wartime photograph of a group of friends standing outside the Pinkuah Arms.	The Pinkuah Arms, Pentlow's sole pub	The view from Pentlow Bridge	A farrmhouse in Pentlow. So far unidentified!	A cottage in Pentlow, so far unidentified.
Pentlow Church in the 1937	A closeup of the detail of the font at Pentlow Church. The photo appeared in an article on Pentlow in 1937 in the East Anglian Daily Times The symbolism is strange and seems to have no conventional Christian symbolism	The front of Pentlow Mill showing a covered grain wagon, photographed in about 1880	Cavendish Station, and bridge viewed from across the river	Paines Manor, Pentlow
A tinted view of Cavendish taken from the edge of Hullets Wood across the Stour. The river is the Mill Leat for Pentlow Mill, artificially widened and deepened. The railway can just be seen	A view of the Stour. The location is uncertain, but is said to be Pentlow	Pentlow Hall, showing the old bridge over the moat	The gate-house to Pentlow Hall. The house still exists, but its thatch has been replaced with concrete tiles and its windows have been replaced with modern windows. The eighteenth century brickwork is now rendered	A shot of Pentlow Mill, showing the road which curved down to the tailrace to enable wagons to turn.
A photo of Pentlow Hall taken in 1937	Cropmarks in the field opposite Pentlow Church, showing the Bronze-age round barrows in the valley near the river. There are also signs of gravel-workings and osier beds	Reg Johnson, who was the local milkman and the Sexton of Pentlow church. He is standing outside the Hall Farm, now called Pentlow House.	Stable Cottage, next to Pentlow Hall Farm.	Havesting in Pentlow
The pea harvest. The men are holding their 'Pea Makes'.	A class of children at Pentlow School	Delivering bread to pentlow residents during a flood. A family is negotiating the flood-walk, still there but remade in concrete. In bad floods, the water would be up to the top of their boots.	An old engraving of Pentlow Rectory. This is probably the house demolished when Pentlow Rectory (noe called Pentlow Tower) was made. It may, alternatively, be a rather stylised view of Pentlow Hall, which served as rectory briefly.	The back of Pentlow Mill in around 1950. Unfortunately the back walls were rebuilt in red brick in the 1960s and large 'off-the-shelf' windows inserted.
A coach outing from Pentlow. Can anyone please supply details and names?