Ingrave, Dairy Farm Pond 1908
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Photo ref:
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Two draught horses are watered at the tree-fringed roadside pond. This picture was taken five years after the celebrated composer Vaughan Williams visited the village of Ingrave collecting old folk songs. Here he wrote down 'Bushes and Briars', which he heard sung by villagers.
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A Selection of Memories from Ingrave
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. Here are some from Ingrave
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Well, I was born at no 54. My godparents lived at no 56. Mum taught at the village school (Ingrave Johnstone Primary) and I was a May Queen's Attendant in 1970. And I remember we had a float for the Brentwood Carnival, it must have been a nursery rhyme theme as my brother and I were Jack and Jill!
My sister, Joan, lives at No.52, and several years ago she gave me a copy of a book prepared and published by one of her (recently deceased) neighbours. This man, with friends and acquaintances all suffering from the postwar housing shortage, formed an informal group committed to developing a new neighbourhood for themselves and their families. As masters of their own destiny they didn't have to wait interminably for ...see more
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