Old photos – Sibford Gower

1/15 Holy Trinity Church from Mannings Hill

1/17 Sibford Gower pond, c1900

1/18 This part of the village known on official letter as the village green. White fronted house was altered to the second Post Office in 1950-60. Postmistress Mabel Payne from 1960.

1/19 Sibford Gower pond

1/20 The old vicarage, 1918. The wooden rails were removed between 1940 and 1950.

1/21 1870s. Note the gate. It was always kept closed until about 1950. It led to private property. No footpath.

1/22 Bonds End Lane, looking west, pre-1907. The steps in Main Street were removed c1950. Gale in March 1947 ripped off the thatch [house on left?] and the roof was eventually replaced

A house with a fence in front of a building

3/9 (1/23) Sibford Gower Bonds End Lane 3. Bottom cottage was a small school (Miss Shemelds)

A group of people walking down the street

1/24 Postcard of Bonds End Lane, 1937. Message on back reads: Homeleigh, Sibford Gower, 13.7.37. I thought you would like to see where I am. It is a queer little lane but quite quiet. I have marked my bedroom and sitting room [on the house at extreme left]. They look over a garden and away to the hills. The land here is very rich, so unlike ours. The flowers and fruit are wonderful. Last night I called to see Mrs Dell, Eleanor’s mother. She is a very nice old lady. She is coming to tea with me tomorrow. I hope all is well with you. Love, Louie.

1/25 Sibford Gower

1/26 Glebe Farm

A vintage photo of a dirt road in front of a house

3/1 (1/27) Sibford Gower crossroads 1

1/28 Sibford Gower Main Street

1/38 Mr Frank Lascelles 13th century house destroyed by fire in 1929. Carter’s Yard caught fire from a spark from a steam wagon, bringing bricks for the building of the Hill at the Friends School. Name of house was then “Atte ye Crosse”.

A horse grazing on grass in front of a house

1/42 The old village hall, Sibford Gower

A cow grazing on grass in front of a house

1/43 Sibford village hall, built just after the First World War from ex-army huts. Demolished in 1945.

A group of people standing in front of a house

1/44 Sibford village hall

1/45 Prospect Villa, Sibford Gower. Later named Innisfree, then Leasowe

An old brick house with trees in the background

1/46 Innisfree, Sibford Gower

1/47 Norton House (now Temple Close). Footpath was by the wall in the foreground.

1/50 Detail from the dovecot: inscription reads “Aspicis ut veniant et candida tecta columbae, accipiat nullas sordida turris ave” Ovid Tristia 1.9.1. As read by M. Dix in 1937. [You see how the doves come to a white dwelling, how an unclean tower harbours no birds.]