Photographic Miscellany

Photographs of Foxearth, Pentlow, and other places in the area.

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Old postcards of Glemsford

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An early view of Clare of around 1860, showing the Castle before the railway destryed its integrity by cutting through the edge and placiing the station within the bailey..	Pentlow Mill in around 1947, before the attempt to convert it to a school, replacing the weatherboarding with brick. Note the boathouse straddling the headrace..	Borley School around 1900. This tiny community boasted once boasted a large child population, some from across the border at Rodbridge.	The Gates of Wards' brewery at Foxearth	The Bull Hotel in Melford, before its 'Restoration'. Taken from the Mat factory. Meeting of Hounds c 1900
Catherine Fosters' cottage in Acton. She was one of the last girls to be publicly executed in England. The cottage is no longer there.	Church Street, Lavenham c 1910	Clare castle, from an old engraving.	Foxearth School in the 1930s, showing how charming it looked before the wretched extensions disfigured it. The school was entirely funded by the remarkable rector John Foster	Celebrationd in Long Melford for the coronation of George V, 1911, showing decorated fire-engine
Mill road, Foxearth showing the side entrance to the brewery and Mole-end	The saxon font at Pentlow, one of the most remarkable of survivals, along with its splendid victorian gothic cover	An early photograph of Focxearth Brewery	Foxearth Church, in 1824, before its 'Restoration'	An interesting sketch of Foxearth church from 1839, showing the impressive array of graves
The interior of foxearth Church	A view of the interior of Foxearth Church, taken in around 1910	The spire of foxearth Church, which was eventually brought down in a thunderstorm	An interesting view of the crossroads in Foxearth before the current village Hall was built, showing a crowd standing on a pile of flints. The flints would be for wall-building.	The Village stores and Post office in Foxearth run by Mr Hamm.
Foxearth Postoffice at around 1910	The gatehouse to foxearth Rectory taken in 1910. The view has changed remarkably little since	Foxearth School, Built in 1849 by Rev John Foster. Photo taken 1935	Harvest Field c 1910 Alfred Woodgate (on horse), Alfred Bulmer, Tom Woodgate, Jim Sansum (holding wagon shaft)	J.Brand's Red Poll cow. Foxearth's most famous female, winner of countless championships in the 1960s. With Robin Hastie
The Kempe memorial in Pentlow Church	The King William Beerhouse in Long Melford in 1899. George Ranson, the landlord, second from the left.	Little Holland, Long Melford, c 1900	Little St Marys, Long Melford, showing Codling's forge 1895	Lower Hall in Foxearth, where the Wards lived. It is an old farmhouse, substantially rebuilt.
The Main Road, in Foxearth before the motorcar. In the distance can be the spire of the church, later demolished in a thunderstorm	A map of the melford estate, dating from the reformation.	Long Melford church c 1850, showing the old tower.	Horse dealers, showing Bill Pattle in his characteristic hat. Bodger Allen the butcher is in a bowler hat. There is some debate as to whether this was at Melford or Lavenham	Melford Hall c 1840
Pentlow Lane, showing the flood-walk. The trees on the left were carved with the initials of lovers, still faintly visible a hundred years later.	Pentlow church, parts of which date back well into Saxon times. The round tower is an addition from Norman times, as probably, is the semicircular apse which gives a glorious affect to the acoustics.	Pentlow church, sited on a tumulus amongst the watermeadows. The church is reached via an ancient causeway.from the road on the valley side.	The interior of Pentlow church	Pentlow Mill a tinted picture taken in the 1880s
A victorian tinted photograph of Pentlow mill, showing Cavendish and the railway line. In the distance is Joseph Garret's maltings next to the congragational church	Pentlow School, c1900. (now a nursery). The Building on the right is the previous school	Westgate Terrace, Long Melford c 1908.	The Pinkuah Arms photograph taken during the war	Theobald the Rat-catcher from an oil-painting at Melford Hall.
Western End. a little hamlet outside Foxearth.