Old & New – Sibford Ferris

3/10 Woodway Road, Sibford Ferris, 1925, with Annie Lines; thatch removed 1933

Woodway Road, Sibford Ferris

3/11 Sibford Ferris Rymell’s Corner. David Sabin and daughters Marie and Annie. David one of six survivors of thirteen. David(?) moved to Woodway in 1925 and was followed here by George Bishop

Sibford Ferris Rymell’s Corner 1

3/12 Sibford Ferris Reading Room, looking towards Rymell’s Corner, 1956. The Reading Room was used for Men’s Club, Choral Society, Dancing classes, Church services 1937/8 when church was being refurnished. Closed at outbreak of war in 1939; later used by Home Guard.

Sibford Ferris Reading Room

3/13 Sibford Ferris Rymell’s Corner, 1930. Little Thatch marked with inked cross. Three houses in foreground now Valley View.

Sibford Ferris Rymell’s Corner 2

3/14 Sibford Ferris Main Street, pre-1911. Well in wall with wooden door. Barn in background pulled down when Home Close was built.

Sibford Ferris Main Street

3/15 Sibford Ferris Woolman Cottage, Hook Norton Road; built for £70 in 1867.

Sibford Ferris Woolman Cottage, Hook Norton Road

3/16 Cottages on Hook Norton Road, built 1851. Occupied by William Warmington, Ted Haynes, Harold Kaye and William Keen.

Cottages on Hook Norton Road

3/17 Sibford Ferris, Main Street. The thatched barn (Austin’s) was replaced by Home Close in 1911

Sibford Ferris, Main Street

3/18 Sibford Ferris: The Friends School, Main Street

Sibford Ferris: The (former) Friends School, Main Street. Now “The Manor”.

3/19 Sibford Ferris: Holly House, 1896. John Lamb in foreground. He renovated house and laid out garden. Holly House later occupied by Dr Taylor in 1930s

Sibford Ferris: Holly House

3/20 Sibford Ferris: Malvern House

Sibford Ferris: Malvern House

3/21 Sibford Ferris: April Cottage

Sibford Ferris: April Cottage

3/22 Sibford Ferris Post Office. Postbox by right hand window. Mr Canning, Joe and Harry’s father, standing in foreground, probably with Dorothy, Wilfred and Marjorie Green. Cottage later renamed “Sunnybank” and then (2017) “The Old Post Office”

Sibford Ferris: The Old Post Office

3/23 Sibford Ferris. Joe Canning delivering water. Jane Neal on step nearest camera; possibly Ivy Freeman (Harris) on next step. Note that all the cottages were thatched.

Sibford Ferris

3/24 Sibford Ferris Old Forge 1

Sibford Ferris Old Forge 1

3/25 Sibford Ferris Old Forge 2

Sibford Ferris Old Forge 2

3/32 The Home Premises, Sibford Ferris. “Ancestral home of Lamb family”. Copy of painting done in 1856. The children on the doorstep are Joseph and Sarah Lamb and the man on horseback is the butcher’s messenger.

The Home Premises, Sibford Ferris

3/36 Sibford Ferris: The Old Malthouse, 1900. Notice no postbox on Sunnybank cottage behind, indicating that the Post Office was still at Old Bake House

Sibford Ferris: The Old Malthouse

1/156 Lanes End, Sibford Ferris, April 25th 1908

Sibford Ferris, April 6th 2008