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Great Coxwell Village

Old Photos - Various

From Vale and Download Museum

This first gallery is of photos held by the Vale & Download Museum, Wantage and all "Images are courtesy of the Vale & Downland Museum, Wantage".

I'm extremely grateful both to the museum and to the Community Fund for supporting the acquisition of the photos for the village website.

Read the captions for information about each photo, the school group is listed as follows:

School - group of 40 schoolchildren and 2 teachers: L-R Back Row: Miss Long, -- White, Kath Wearne, Ken Edwards, Jos Belcher, Miss Chain; 2nd Row: Bill Seymour, Sid Newport, Fred Morse, Walt Belcher, -- Titcombe; 3rd Row: -- Shewrey, Gladys Shewrey, George Belcher, Dolly Belcher; 4th Row: Stan Newport, Jim Wearne, Reg Belcher, Perc Hawkins; Front Row: Gladys Beechey, Nora Hawkins, Dolly Hawkins, Perc Belcher

Please email me with any comments or corrections.

web@greatcoxwell.com

 

  • Hay making in field opposite Mory's - we think Mr Durham and Monty Webb, c. 1935
  • Holloway House, Frank King's Cottage, Old Walls wall
  • Mizpah - opposite The Laurels, c. 1990
  • School; from south, 1905 - Ault Photo Stanford
  • View north along main street - on L: Reading Room (with frame for lamp); on R: Chapel (demolished 1955; Chapel House; Hillside; Wayside, c. 1937
  • View north along main street - on R: Wayside; Hillside; Wayside; Chapel House, pre-1952
  • View south along main street - on L: Pieman's Thatch (before re-roofing); in distance: The Royal Oak public house (Halls) (closed before 1965). pre-1965
  • Pear Tree Farmhouse (now Cottage) c 1922 or c 1935. The strange looking car in the garden is Alldays and Onion’s (last produced 1918), but at this time it belonged to a man from London. The church tower of St. Giles’ can be seen in the background.
  • Wayside and view looking SW to Church Lane - old car (Riley?), c. 1937 (Antona 2960)
  • View looking down Church Hill to The Dolls House (Berry Hill Cottage); on L, Mrs Pottinger's House and Amberley, 1937
  • Vicarage and Church, 1905
  • School - group of 40 school children and 2 teachers, 1921
  • Mr and Mrs Baldwin (Licensee) in pony and trap outside The Royal Oak, 1910-1919? Arthur Baldwin was listed as licencee in 1915, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1931 (Kellys)
  • Outside The Royal Oak - Mr Mulcock, Mr Scrivens (son of Mrs Baldwin) with bicycle, and 2 others, c. 1918
  • View NW from church tower - school and village amongst trees, 1930-1939 (Antona 2966)
  • Frank King's Cottage (since demolished), 1973
  • Pear Tree cottage - Foxley beyond, 1948
  • Lower Main Street (opposite Pear Tree cottage/farm) - Mr Williams; postmaster, c. 1937
  • St. Giles Church; view from south-southeast; gravestones, c. 1905
  • St. Giles Church, view from southeast, 1997
  • Berry Hill Cottage (also known as The Dolls House) (was next to Berry Hill Farm) - stone tablet dated 1854 - new back added c1996. c. 1995
  • Farm and tithe barn; fields around, 7.9.1997
  • Farm and tithe barn; fields around, 7.9.1997
  • Farm and tithe barn; fields around, 7.9.1997
  • Farm and tithe barn; fields around, 7.9.1997

From various other sources

This second gallery has a range of old photos, donated or scanned over time, to see a photo in detail click on the image.

Three of the photos come from the Domesday Reloaded project of 1986, you can read about it here.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120318181300/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-424000-192000

Please email me with any changes or additions, or send me any photos you have that you want to add to the site.

web@greatcoxwell.com

The copyright is unknown, if you own the copyright please let me know, I will promptly remove or credit any image upon request.

  • Village Pump, Pottinger Cottage and Amberley
  • The Great Barn
  • The Great Barn
  • Berryhill Cottage in the centre, house in foregraound and barn (since demolished). Unnamed cowman, cows and dog.
  • The Great Barn
  • Warenne House, woman and cart outside Manor Cottage.
  • Great Coxwell near Farringdon (sic) - Chapel House and the Chapel on the right, Clayton Villa on the left. Warrene House straight on.
  • View of Chapel, Manor Cottage and Warrenne House on the R, Clayton Villa as a shop(?) on the right. Cart, woman and child. (Ault Stanford)
  • View of the village from the west, Glebe House, Down;s View and St Giles on the horizon,
  • Views of Coxwell - Danes Cottage on the right, the old Post Office on the left, building ahead where Old Walls sits today.
  • From 1986 Domesday Reloaded - Twelfth century Saint Giles Church Great Coxwell.This view is of the southern aspect.It also shows a major part of the old churchyard.
  • From Domesday Reloaded - Snowscene of the 1982 winter,showing the main street,plus a terrace of new houses in Great Coxwell.It also shows a recently renovated cottage.
  • From Domesday Reloaded - 1986 This photograph shows a typical thatched cottage of Great Coxwell. There were at least 14 thatched cottages 60 years ago, now only 3 left.