Modern Stambourne and how it appeared many years ago
Revels Farm Cottages 
…used to be Upper Green Farm Cottages 
Little Nortons’ Corner 
Now in front of Hogs Norton 
Jubilee Cottages 
…next to Moat Hall 
Birdbrook Corner with Ivy Cottage 
…or Bumpstead Corner as it was known 
The White House 
…Closure of the Butcher’s Arms, 1968 * 
Jarvis Cottages, Chapel End Way 
…Jarvis Cottages as they were 
Chapel End Way 
Chapel behind trees, Old Post Office far right 
The Manse 
Rev. and Mrs. Houchen, c. 1910 
Third Congregational Church, built 1969 
Second Congregational Church, demolished 1968 
Inside Congregational Church 
Inside Congregational Church 
Left to Right: Ted Smith, Mrs Blewitt, Mrs Metson, Jack Blewitt, Doris Fitch, Josh Blewitt, Leslie Fitch, Mervyn Drew, Ernest Drew 
Now Bungalows 
…was Stambourne Post Office. Thatched cottages pulled down after the war 
Now a Bungalow 
..was Stambourne Post Office 
Frank Daniels 
Original village postman wearing his Shako hat 
Mill House 
…as it was 
Site of the old Post Mill 
Blown down in a gale in 1909 
Hill Farm corner 
…with a sign to “Ridgwell” and “Bumpstead” 
Park View 
…as it was 
Stambourne Church 
Stambourne Church, early 1900s 
Church wardens Derrick Johnson and Andrew Garratt, 1996 
Oil Lamps means this was before 1953, when electricity was installed 
Church Farm 
…as it was 
The Red Lion 
De Burgh and North Essex Harehounds, 24/12/1977 
Red Lion 
Red Lion and Blacksmith Shop 
The School and house 
…as it was 
Farrels 
Pound House 
Pound House 
Pound House 
Pound Cottage 
Pound Cottage before restoration 
Mill Farm 
Flash flood in 1966 with Mrs and Mrs Wright 
Rosebank 
…as it was 
Bungalow ‘Nimrod’ being built 
…what stood before 
Looking towards Pound Corner 
…with a communal washhouse on left! 
Dyers End 
Earls Croft on right 
Virginia Cottages 
Virginia Cottages, 1907 
Little Tagley 
…was a Beer House. Sign said “Good Beer Sold Here” 
Ploughing on Great Tagley 
Mr Drew ploughing 
Tagley Cottage 
Martin Families at the door 
The Grange 
…formerly the Rectory 
Stambourne Stores 
“Wymaway” as it is now… 
…as it was
* …Closure of the Butcher’s Arms, 1968
L-R: George Boughtwood, Walter (Bumper) Barnard, Oscar Pickess, Mrs Crowe, Mr Crowe, Herbert Mickley, Frank Metson
Derrick Johnson compiled these pictures in 1996 with help from the following people:
Adrian Corder-Birch, Jane Pickess, Ivor Debenham, Kenneth Pyman, Jessie Ruggles, Bryan Wright, Mary Rawlinson, Neil Cockrell, Ronald Hawkins, Martyn Fall, Matthew Fall, Elizabeth Fall.
With thanks to Martyn and Elizabeth Fall — these photos compare modern Stambourne with as it appeared many years ago.
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