Throwback Thursday

 

As I've written before our home was built in 1999/2000 on what was farmland.  I've never seen images of the land before the houses were built, and although the local council has some photographs taken for the planning permission these have been scanned and photocopied into monochrome blurs now.


I decided to ask our village Facebook group about the land and learned more in an evening than in the time we've lived here.  Our home is built on what was Wenlocks Farm.  It seems to have been a bit of a community hub supplying milk and eggs to the locals.  Perhaps the nicest thing to come out of the post were the tales from the 50's and 60's of hi jinx around the pond from people falling in to teenage boys braving the ice as a dare in the winter.  One story apparently featured in our local newspaper of a boy going on to the ice to rescue his dog and getting stuck himself.  Perhaps when life is a little more normal I shall have a look in the archives locally and see if I can track down the story.

Meanwhile, a lovely lady called Maryanne sent me this photograph.  The tree is long gone and the view very different, but thats our pond!  The grasses to the left are still there too!  Made my day that!



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  1. Caroline MJanuary 21, 2021 at 7:53 AM

    I live on a 1980s Wimpey estate but worked 40 miles away. In idle conversation at work it turned out that my colleague was the original owner of the other half of the semi and had photos of the build from before the roads were in place. It's very strange seeing the line of the road in a field.

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    1. A Year On The PondJanuary 21, 2021 at 10:26 AM

      Isn't it? And what a small world!
      The fence to the right of the old photo is still there behind the modern fence. Apparently an old neighbour had some aerial shots so I'm doing some digging!

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