Old Photographs of South Willingham.

Posted on 27/05/2011 by CeliaPayne
 Buildings.
    
The Thatch.
 According to Mrs Anne Flowers nee Copeland who used to live in The
Thatch, it was once  three separate homes.Mrs Flowers kindly supplied some of the photographs of  The Thatch and of Woodbine Cottage.
                                
 
 
 

The Thatch . Station Road photographed in the 1930’s

                                                                                                                   
                            
                   
 
Believed to be The Thatch c 1940

 

The Thatch Station Road date unknown.

 

 

The Thatch Station Road

The Thatch being re-thatched 2007.

 

Betts Pond Easter 1949 the building in the background is The Forge.

  The above photograph shows Anne Copeland standing beside a pond in the grounds of Church Farm which was known by local people as ‘Betts Pond’ .The photograph was taken in 1949 at Easter . The Forge can be seen in the background. Anne Copeland used to live with her family in The Thatch.
  
     

Early photograph of Church Farm Station Road. date unknown

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Woodbine Cottage
 
 Woodbine cottage is principally constructed of stone with a thatched roof and was part of the Hainton Estate which once owned most of South Willingham. In 1957  this cottage was sold for  £70. It is believed to be at least 300-400 years old and was once the village post office.

ref. Lincolnshire Life magazine May 1971. 

                                                                                         

Woodbine Cottage date unknown.

    

An old photograph of Woodbine Cottage.

Woodbine cottage circa 1957 

  

Woodbine Cottage being re-thatched Feb,1962.

 

                               Woodbine Cottage  June 1974                 

 

Woodbine Cottage. Photograph from The Hallgarth Collection. Grimsby Library

 

Woodbine Cottage being re Thatched.

 

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Mill Cottages South Willingham date unknown

                                                                                      

Mill Cottages.

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View of two cottages in Blacksmiths Lane and also of The Schoolroom. date unknown

The two cottages are in the process of being made into one dwelling called Springfield View and the schoolroom is now a private house called RaynardsCottage.                                      

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9 Responses to Old Photographs of South Willingham.

  1. Julia Colley says:
    22/07/2011 at 16:52

    Hi. What a great site, with wonderful historical pictures. I am researching my family, and according to the Census – my great, great grandfather and family lived and worked at the mill in South Willingham between 1860-1890. How can I purchase copies of these pictures please? Thanks Julia

    • admin says:
      22/07/2011 at 19:44

      Julia, we will email you what we have about the Old Mill. The site is very new and still evolving and it will take a few days to get back to you because I am out of the country until the end of the month.

      Paul

  2. Julia says:
    01/08/2011 at 20:37

    Thanks for responding, I will await your reply. Julia

  3. Peter Lawler says:
    20/03/2012 at 17:06

    As promised my brother and I will be writing some articles about our times in Willingham during and after the second world war. I have finished one, halfway into my second and plan a third. My bother plans 2 articles but is having problems trying to get archive content from the Lincolnshire Echo about wartime fighter planes passing over Willingham and killing workers in the fields. Nobody has memories of it so if any readers can help, please contact me via this site.

    • Paul Ferguson says:
      29/03/2012 at 15:46

      Peter, I have with checked Dulcy Layer (nee Pickwell) who has lived in the village since 1930 and she has no recollection of this event.

      regards
      Paul

    • ellen eley says:
      11/06/2012 at 19:04

      do you remember Margaret Holmes my Mum ? who lived at Pature House in Sth Willingham

      • admin says:
        11/06/2012 at 19:15

        Ellen, we still have few people around who have lived in the village all their life – Dulcy Layer, Alice Bray and Harold Bray. We will pass your notes onto them – they are not online so we will have to print them out.

  4. ellen eley says:
    11/06/2012 at 17:43

    My grandparents Rose and Fred Holmes lived in South Willingham from around 1930-1980 in Pasture House –great memories of the village

  5. ellen eley says:
    11/06/2012 at 19:03

    My grandparents owned and lived in Pasture House next to the Richardsons from 1930-1982 –They were called Fred and Rose HOLMES .I spent many a happy week in the Summer holidays in the village in the 1970s and were scared to death when my sister and I Kathleen had to go and play dominoes with Johnny and Ella Betts as Johnny used to wiggle his ears and tease us ..Ella was church organist and lived in Barkwith Road .Grandad knew all the residents at Oak Cottage for many years and also everyone else in the village –I live in Horncastle and teach the piano among my pupils are the Cutts family of South Willingham

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