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1996 - Home Farm before re-thatching

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1996

Mr. Farmer of Creaton re-thatching Home Farm. All the old thatch was completely removed, and the bottom layers were considered to have been on the house for some 250 years. Instead of straw (life about 25 years), reed (life about 75 years) from Poland was used.

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1996 - Home Farm after re-thatching by Bob Farmer with Continental water Reed

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Circa 1910 - Fir Tree Ale House

Owned by Samuel Pearson from around 1840 - 1889, with Pearson the landlord from 1861 - 1881. In 1889, the business was taken over by T Manning & Co. Ltd (with Levi Richardson running it in 1891), who later in 1907 bought the property from the Wetherall family as mortgagees of Robert Tomblin. Henry Catchlove (wife Sarah Catchlove) was the landlord in 1901, Mrs George Knighthall in 1910. Then it was a Manning pub before Phipps acquired the business of Manning in 1939. Ernie Bryant was the landlord in the war years until 1947, then Lillian Gammage until it was closed in 1960..

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1977 - Cornforth Cottage, 4 Manor Road, on the left and 2 Manor Road before alterations to Number 2.

Number 2 has 1758 scratched into the left part of the stonework, which may indicate age of original stone (the right hand part is newer). Number 4 is probably circa 1700 stone and thatch.

These are part of a block of four properties on the corner with Haynes Lane, owned by George Smith according to the 1910 Revluation. The vertical scores on the stonework are sharpening marks for the slate pencils that children used on their slates, indicating that this may once have been a school. See "Slate pencil sharpening" in slhs archive.

It may be that this was the location of the Dame School, with the 1841 census showing an Alice Haines, schoolmistress living here aged 60. (Was Haynes Lane named after this family - it was the era of naming streets e.g. Drings Lane, Waterloo, Johnsons Road). It was a small fee paying private school, which closed down in 1872.

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Date not known - Stone House, No 2 Yew Tree Lane

This is a well built Grade II listed stone house with a date stone of 1684 on the side wall. The trefoil on the date stone is similar to Cotfield outbuildings, so possibly the same stonemason. There is an Interesting window surround detail. Additional windows were added at the front during the second half of the 20^th century, as were railings outside for the safety of walkers along the footpath leading to the church. It is seen from the junction of Brixworth Road and School Road.

It was occupied until about 1985 by the Wadham family - John Edward Wadhams (6^th Bedfordshire) and Edwin Wadhams (Machine Gun Corps) were both killed in the First World War.

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7^th July 2003

Stone House, the corner of Brixworth Road and Yew Tree Lane, being re-thatched with traditional Long Straw. The work was being carried out by Roger Scanlon, in the red top, who lives in the village.

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1900 - East end of The Walk at its junction with Holdenby Road. This was, apparently, a laundry.

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