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| Grove Road outside the butchers,
villagers from left to right - Mr Ward, unknown, two ladies Nellie
Brown and Mrs Ward, Mr William Gale on horseback, Willie ?, Robert
and Reg Gale and Mrs Gale. C. 1910 |
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| C. 1920 People outside cottage. The
great elms of the 'Rookery' tower above the Mill Leat, source of
power for Roberts' flax mills. |
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| Mr & Mrs William Gale outside the
butchers C. 1920 Grove Road led to the 'Grove', home of and centre
of Richard Roberts' flax operations. It was also the site of the
butcher's shop - here run by W. Gale, whose descendants still live
close by. The squealing and bellowing of animals being slaughtered
has been replaced by an elegant calm. |
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| Grove Mill before conversion - at the
end of the Grove is Roberts' former 'new' swingling mill of 1803.
Between it and the 'old mill' (centre) flows the Leat which drove
the undershot mill wheel. To the left lies the Miller's house,
formerly thatched, now tiled. The whole estate was once in the hands
of the Pitt-Rivers family (see the Indenture elsewhere in General
Information) |
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| The 'new' Grove Mill of 1803 before
conversion into flats by Peter de Savary in the early 1960's. The
four levels were reduced to three and the mill wheel and associated
machinery destroyed. |
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| The Grove Mill being modified by
Peter de Savary into Cottage. The conversion in progress. Mill
Cottage was sold to Mr and Mrs House who may be seen in the picture.
C. 1960 |
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| Ralph Wilfred Bartlett and his wife
Gladys Winifred Bartlett neé Hit and their baby, Michael
Robert Bartlett, in the arms of his aunt Minnie Nethercott outside
Tinker's Cottage. C. 1932/33 |
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| Butchers shop |
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Roberts' home after 1780 was at 'The
Grove', now Grove House,
which sports an ancient mulberry on the front lawn |
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Believed to be an early picture of
the Mulberry Tree
in the garden of Grove House
Historical notes included here - click on picture |
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| Every so often, the thatcher has to
be called in to do a repair job or a full re-thatching. Reed thatch
is best, maybe from Abbotsbury or Norfolk, but now more likely from
Eastern Europe. Here we see Mr Legge at Grove House with the tools
and raw material of his trade stacked up beneath the mulberry tree.
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| Grove Road as you might see it today
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