Boxford, Swan Street c.1955
Photo ref: B620004
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Photo ref: B620004
Photo of Boxford, Swan Street c.1955

More about this scene

The 18th-century brick-fronted Swan (left) closed in the 1980s. The Victorian stepped gables, porch and Tudor-style windows of Old Castle House beyond mask a timber building of c1600. The adjoining Victoria Cottage with round-topped windows is dated 1839. Commerce House was Kingsbury's the builders, established in 1730. There are several small shops on the right, one of which has painted bands imitating beams and a panel of pargetting - only the latter remains today.

Memories of Boxford, Swan Street c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Boxford, Swan Street c.1955

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I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago. As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her parents, my great Grandmother Mary and Grandfather Charles Carpenter at Tinywent Corner - a little cottage with a well and a toilet way up the end of the garden. The start of this ...see more