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Dixies Farm House
Unsurprisingly, the function and shape of Dixies Farmhouse has changed considerably with passing time. It is currently home to two separate families, each possessing a small garden and some outbuildings, some of which were once part of a much larger farmyard. In the nineteenth century both Tithe Surveys and Census returns revealed that Dixies Farm belonged to the Chapman family and was one of the major farms in the village, consisting of some ...
Ashwell Dental Surgery
· The date showing above the top window of this red-brick building dates it to 1874 but inside the timber frame indicates this may have been a façade surrounding an older property. · The upper photograph on the right was taken in 1895 when the building housed Fanny Adkins’ General Store and her home. · Fanny herself (the left hand figure looking out of the first floor window) was a formidable Victorian lady – always dressed i...
Researching the History of Your House
HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHIVES AND LOCAL STUDIES Introduction These notes are intended as a guide to the basic sources available for researching the history of a house. Although based primarily on sources held at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) at County Hall in Hertford, many items such as printed books, newspapers, directories and Ordnance Survey maps can be found in most Hertfordshire Libraries too. Tracing the history of a house can ...
81 Back Street
... John Worboys shop at the west end of Back Street was packed from floor to ceiling with everything that a housewife would require. John ( always known as Jack ) as well as being a grocer, was Ashwell’s official town crier and bill sticker.His shop, which is now a garage, had sides of bacon,blocks of cheese, penny blocks of salt and red lifebuoy and yellow sunlight soap. Mrs Searle Senior bought the shop in the early 20 century. ...
23 Kingsland Terrace
... For a few years in the 1920’s, Tart Geeves ran a small fruit and confectionery shop from his front room. ...
5 Mill Street
Between 1861 and 1871 William Kitchener Jr opened a butchers shop in Mill St. At the age of 73, in 1883, he passed away and George Bryant took over the shop. He passed the shop on to his son, Arthur Bryant. Unfortunately he committed suicide in 1920 and the shop was bought by Mark V Crump. Mark ran the shop until 1954 when his son Philip (Phil) took over. Phil retired in 1989, his two sons, Jonathan and David running the business. Jonathan is sti...
The Butchers at The Two Brewers.
... During the period of c1870-1890, Charles and Mary Summerfield were the publicans of the Two Brewers. Not only did they serve ales, but they carried out butchery at the rear of the premises. If you look at the side of the building in Alms Lane you will see the dark, boarded section with inset bars. This is where the butchery took place. ...
54 High Street
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High St-next to Rose & Crown
... Worboys is one of the old Ashwell families. Les Worboys lost a leg in the 1914-1918 war.He was then trained as a boot and shoe repairer, and opened a shop opposite the blacksmiths and next door to the Rose and Crown. In the photo the Cherry Blossem shoe polish adverts can be seen above the shop door. The shop closed in the 1960’s and was demolished. The area where it was is now part of the Rose and Crown car park. ...
36 High Street
... John Ashwell had a butchers at No 36 High Street with a modern slaughterhouse facing onto Hodwell. Eddie Brown, a methodist local preacher, bought the shop in the late 1940’s and ran it until he retired in the early 1960’s. Stan Whitehead took over until the shop closed in the late 1960’s. ...
31 High Street
In the 1920’s Phil Cook had his cycle agents business here. Winnie Stamford moved her wool shop here in the late 1950’s, and it remained here until she retired in 1970. During the 1970’s F A Flack & Co sold antique furniture reproductions followed in the 1980’s by more furniture reproductions, Solicitors, Estate Agents and the Ashwell Delicatessen. The 1990’s saw the shop converted into a tea room, and since then it has been a flower shop, a Flow...
Dennis the Butcher's
T.D. Dennis, Family Butcher, photograph from 1950s (original held by Ashwell Museum) Tommy Dennis rented the premises soon after the first world war, and purchased it in 1931.The top of the shop contained evergreen shrubs which had been shaped. The centrepiece was a bulls head. He ran a very successful butchers business, supplying not only to the village, but to both commercial and residential customers in the surrounding area. He retired from th...
Ratcliffe House
Ratcliffe House was built as a school and residence for a schoolmistress on land given by the Vicar and Churchwardens of Ashwell. It was financed by public subscription, as recorded on an embroidery sampler, dated 1840, which lists the subscribers, headed by The Lord Bishop of London, who gave £10. The school was managed by the Vicar’s daughter, Charlotte Morice, who became Mrs Ratcliffe after her marriage to the curate. Pupils at the school paid...
Chippings
A Sixteenth Century House Far too many people have lived and worked here to be mentioned individually. For the past sixty-two years the shop has seen continuous hairdressing taking place. Alice Anderson rescued the derelict building in 1948 and retired in 1974, when Susan Birch took over. Susan is now in her thirty-sixth year of hairdressing here. Going back further, Edward Hallybone, radio engineer, looked after the village wirelesses here f...
Cambridge Villas
Cambridge Villas were built in 1892, as you can see carved over the front porch. They are the only example in Ashwell of a pair of typical late Victorian semis. Both houses retain many of their original features. The houses were built for Mr Westrope, the village grocer, whose family owned them for many years. In fact number 86 has had only four owners since 1892. The fronts of these houses are built with bricks from Arlesey but the sides h...
Ashwell Quarry Nature Reserve
... Mike Straneg It would be nice to know if the general public can visit and enjoy the reserve. Peter Greener Access to the reserve is restricted, however all you need is a permit from the warden. Look up the Herts and Middx Wildlife Trust site for more details: https://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/NatureReserves/Restricted/ashwell ...
Bear House
... jack colquhoun good statement grandpa!!! woo we are the Colquhoun clan and we are the best!!! ...
Ashwell Post Office
It was built, originally as two cottages, on the site of Brassknocker Farm, which had been destroyed in the Great Fire of Ashwell in 1850. Miss Nellie Bryant, a seamstress, lived here and had a bay window fitted to the right hand side of the building, where she could be seen working. Barclay’s Bank rented the front room on the left hand side on Thursday mornings so that local employers could collect wages for their workers. Nellie Bryant bequeath...
The Maltings
... Alice I have fond memories of this building when it was the R Whites factory. My gran lived in the house directly opposite, 7, Green Lane in the eighties. My brother and I loved to see the lemonade bottles - they were glass bottles back then! ...
Thatched Cob Wall
This unusual wall probably dates from the 18th century and was the boundary wall to the kitchen garden of Ashwell Bury. It is built of a material known as ‘clunch’ or ‘cob’, a mixture of chalk, straw, mud, stones, hair, pieces of crockery, other rubbish and lime. It is 18 inches (45cm) thick. The white brick plinth dates from the nineteenth century. Major repairs to the wall were carried out in the 19th and 20th centuries and it is now Grade ...
Twin Cottage
... This cottage was built in about 1880 as one of a pair of ‘two up, two down’ cottages. It was formerly known as Hollyhock Cottage and, like many Ashwell properties, it still has hollyhocks growing outside. Robert ‘the Bounce’ Skerman, a well-known village character, was born in this house and his dog is buried in the garden. ...
40 Gardiners Lane
As you will see from the photograph, there were once two cottages on this site. The original cottage that still remains was built some time in the late 1830s. The walls are built with ‘clay bats’. These are blocks similar in size to modern building blocks but made of chalk and straw mixed with lime. The clay bats were covered with smooth render externally and lime plaster internally. The external walls would then have been painted with limew...
Page's Brewery
In 1843 John Sale and Benjamin Christy began brewing at Westbury Farm. They then moved next door and constructed a malting, a brewery, stables and a brewery house. Shortly after 1850 John Sale withdrew from the partnership and by 1861 Benjamin Christy II (son of Benjamin) had become the brewer. However the brewery encountered financial difficulties in 1876 and the brewery was purchased by Joshua Richmond Page. Joshua Page was a maltster from Ba...
Fordham's Brewery
George Fordham and his son Edward George began brewing in Mill street in 1836.The brewery included a tun room,cleansing room, a counting house and the brewery office.The equipment was powered by a water wheel driven by water from a leat passing under the buildings. Beers brewed included XXXX, Double stout, Oatmeal stout, Milk stout, Brown ale, Pale ale, Best Pale ale, Light ale, Light Bitter ale, Old Ashwell ale and Luncheon ale. The brewery ha...
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