Villagers

 

Brothers Benjy (or Bengie)  & Tommy Swaffield

Brothers Benjy (or Bengie) & Tommy Swaffield

sitting either side of an unknown visitor outside the 'Three Horseshoes' circa 1930

Fashons change but this is still a popular spot to sit.

 

 

Simon Brown with yoke on Burton Beach, 1925

Simon Brown with yoke on Burton Beach, 1925.

Believed to be the last yoke in use in the village.

 

 

Village school photo - circa 1925

Village school photo - circa 1925

Back row: R. Howarth (headmaster), Gordon Ward, Bill Bullock, Ray Legg, Arthur Williams

Middle row: Dicker Thorner, George Cammell, Jack Bugler, Fred Williams, ??, Fred Northover, ??, Douglas Northover

Front Row: ??, Violet Hounsell, Ellis Rodway, Jessie Brine, Elsie Campbell

Can you say who the missing names are??

 

 

Burton Bradstock School Playground 1957

Burton Bradstock School Playground 1957

Back row from left: Anne Starkey - Sarah Bailey - Elizabeth Northover - Jasmine Chilcott

Sitting in front: Marvash Jamshidian - a Persian visitor who joined the school for 6 weeks

 

 

Mrs. Thorner (Benjie's sister) and Mabel Hussey in 1930

Mrs. Thorner (Benjie's sister) and Mabel Hussey in 1930

outside Benjie's cottage

 

 

Great Aunt Lucy Northover and Anne Thorner

Great Aunt Lucy Northover and Anne Thorner

(date not known) with a Swifter