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Photographs
on this page
supplied by Helen Matthews and Frank
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An early
postcard picture showing the A30 west of
the village, year unknown, possibly in the
1930s. |
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Another 1930s picture showing the lychgate at the church entrance. |
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"Before
and after" postcard pictures of the
church and inn, showing the effects of
colouring techniques common in the early
days of photography.
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A
good quality picture postcard from 1938. The enlarged image
includes Harding's shop and the houses
opposite the Yarcombe Inn. |
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Another
good quality postcard picture taken in
1938.
In the foreground is the school, now The
Belfry Hotel. Further down
the A30 is the church (obscured) and Yarcombe
Inn. |
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Believed
to be an early 1920s photograph, this
shows the Yarcombe Inn with its attached
construction, now removed, and the
church before the lychgate was built. |
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A view
from fields north of the A30, east of
the village. Year uncertain,
the only real clue being the car parked
outside the inn, believed to be a 1930s
Morris Minor. |
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Calways
Cottage. |
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This
postcard view of the village was on sale
in 1966. |
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Looking
down on Yarcombe from the A30 western
approach. |
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Two shots
of Sheafhayne Manor, the older one on
the right purportedly from the early
1900s. Close examination
suggests that several parts of the black
and white picture have been drawn, or
manually enhanced. |
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1981 |
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Harvest Supper at Yarcombe, 1966. |
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Jan 1984 |
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Young
Farmers |
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Greatly respected brothers Ralph (left)
and John (right) Salter with their uncle
Bob
Radnedge . |
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Conservative Fete Queen at Buckland,
1954 |
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Martin
Symes & Rosemary Salter with Bishop John
Armstrong looking at the model of
Yarcombe Village made by Yarcombe
children, August 1972 |
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Thanks
go to Helen Matthews for the photographs above.
Many thanks to Andrew Duff for the next two
photographs from around 1918
The photographs below are from Frank Weeks.
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Ex-Yarcombe
man Frank Weeks now lives in New Zealand
and has sent these photos (c 1954) of
his 1931 Morris Minor which he believes
may be the same as ones seen in other
photo pages on this site.
Note the
position of the spare tyre on the rear. |
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Frank has
also supplied this undamaged picture of Calways
Cottage (see Helen's, above).
He recalls that sometime around 1940 an
egg van rolled over here, leaving a
smell of rotten eggs for weeks! |
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This photograph dates back to around
1958/9 and shows Harold Baker
(left), owner of Underdown, with his
sons Roderick and Desmond
at
the doorway to the ‘cellar’ at
Underdown. (Many barrels of cider
within!) Centre
adult was possibly a Geoff Long (?)
and (right) a friend of his from
London.
Can anyone confirm names?
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Left: Henry Derryman and Henry Denning,
possibly taken at Derrymans farm.
Right: Coral and Rosie Clark, who owned
Underdown Farm during the war years,
tending the garden at Underdown.
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Many thanks to Frank Weeks for the photographs
above.
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Apart from providing the
various photographs above,
Frank Weeks
has kindly given us some
background information which
reveals the warmth he has
for Underdown - so
much so that he seems to
have spread the name to a
large extent in his new
country! Read
his interesting submission
below. (Thanks,
Frank!)
I was an evacuee at
Underdown Farm and
eventually worked there for
a year prior to emigrating
to New Zealand. We bought twelve
acres in Napier in 1990 and
called it Underdown.
We started a cattery,
eventually housing eighty
cats, calling it
Underdown Cat Motel.
I took on an Incubator and
poultry equipment mail order
nation-wide business and
called it Underdown
Supplies. I
sold some incubators to an
Albatross colony and they
incubated a world-first
artificially hatched
albatross and called the
bird Underdown.
So we now have a fifteen
year old Underdown
flying around the world.
He has had a wife and one
chick but unfortunately his
wife never returned.
The mortality rate of
albatross is high due to
long-line fishing.
(Preventable but not
prevented.) We
now have thirteen acres in
Taupo called Underdown.
I have sold the incubator
business which I
operated for
about twenty years, so
Underdown is known to
many New Zealanders.
By a
strange turn of events I
came to know Underdown
Farm's present owner (it has
changed hands a number of
times) and he has visited us
in New Zealand and I stayed
at Underdown for several
days in 2005.
As a thank you I donated one
of the new bell ropes for
the church and as a result
made the acquaintance of
some more Yarcombe folk.
Have known Shirley Briant
since we were children.
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