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Chenies Postcards
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Postcard Chenies Hill (back) 1906
Postcard Chenies Hunt 1910
Postcard Chenies Hunt (Back) 1910
Postcard. Chess Croft (Mr. & Mrs. Salmon) seving teas. Postcard used with permission. Dear Lu, from R.S. 1913
Postcard (back). Chess Croft (Mr. & Mrs. Salmon) seving teas. Postcard used with permission. Dear Lu, from R.S. 1913
Postcard. Dodd’s Mill and Chess . Postcard used with permission. Dear Winnie, from M, 1913.
Postcard (back). Dodd’s Mill and Chess . Postcard used with permission. Dear Winnie, from M, 1913.
Postcard . No. 2 Chenies Bottom (End Cottage). Postcard used with permission. To Miss Bastin, from sister A. B. 1914
Postcard (back). No. 2 Chenies Bottom (End Cottage). Postcard used with permission. To Miss Bastin, from sister A. B. 1914
Postcard . Chenies Pierrots, 1918. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard (back). Chenies Pierrots, 1918. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard . Dodd’s Mill. Aunt Martha and Uncle Charlie. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard (Back). Dodd’s Mill. Aunt Martha and Uncle Charlie. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard Chenies Knitting Party. Back Row: Aunt Annie, (unknown), Win Tomlin, Mrs Dancer, Mrs Hill. Front Row: Nanny, Aunt Rose, Violet, Mrs Simmons, Mrs Simpson
Postcard used with permission.
Aunt Annie may be Annie Bastin (Charles’s sister). Aunt Rose may be Rose Maling (Charles’s daughter), or possibly Rosa Bastin (Charles’s cousin). Violet may be Violet Pearce. Mrs Simmonds was Betty’s grandmother.
Postcard Chenies Knitting Party (Back). Back Row: Aunt Annie, (unknown), Win Tomlin, Mrs Dancer, Mrs Hill. Front Row: Nanny, Aunt Rose, Violet, Mrs Simmons, Mrs Simpson
Postcard used with permission.
Postcard Post Office Tea Gardens 1920/1930’s
Postcard. Fanny Hearn (No. 4) and Violet Pearse (No. 5) photographed outside No. 4 Chenies Bottom. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard (back). Fanny Hearn (No. 4) and Violet Pearse (No. 5) photographed outside No. 4 Chenies Bottom. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard Baptist Chapel
Postcard Baptist Chapel (Back). Invitation to Harvest Thanksgiving Services
Postcard. Evacuees Alec (left) and Mick (right) at No. 4 Chenies Bottom (with Mrs Hearn). Postcard used with permission.
Postcard (back). Evacuees Alec (left) and Mick (right) at No. 4 Chenies Bottom (with Mrs Hearn). Postcard used with permission.
Postcard, Chenies near Mill. Postcard used with permission.
Postcard. Chess River Bridge, Mill Farm near Dodd’s Mill, c.1900s
source unknown
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Postcard. Old Elms, c.1900s
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Chenies Postcard
Postcard . From the Crest of Chenies
Postcard. Chenies, The Triangle
Postcard Old Elms
Postcard Post Office
Postcard Red Lion
Postcard Church and Manor
Postcard . chess river bridge woodside, 9
from Paul Wood, source unknown
coles watford
Postcard. The Village
from Paul Wood, source unknown
Postcard. Village Green, c.1900
from Paul Wood, coles,
Boy meets girl on bicycle See alt with caption
Postcard. Village Green, c,1900s
from Paul Wood, source unknown
Postcard. The Manor House c1900s
from Paul Wood, coles
Postcard. Chenies Cottages, c.1900s
from Paul Wood, source unknown
Postcard. The Manor House and St Michael’s Church
from Paul Wood, source unknown
Postcard. Chenies, Top of Hill
from Paul Wood, source unknown
Postcard. Chenies HIll c.1900s
source unknown
Postcard Old Cottages, Chenies. Used with permission.
Postcard . Old Well Cottage, (likely dated later than the photograph, as the trees are missing and gardens are present).
The Almshouses Chenies; a postcard. The almshouses were created in 1605, and provided social care to individuals until they were pulled down in 1888. Photograph sourced from the Bucks Archives
Almshouses Postcard, From Chorleywood Field Studies Centre approx 1960’s.
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All postcards used with permission of their owners. Many thanks to Jean and Sheila Coster, Gwen Woodbridge and Carolyn Birch.