As Hambledon celebrates its 2018 Midsummer Festival with a weekend of events, here is a glimpse into the village’s past.
Hambledon Village Trust, landlord of the community-run shop, has received photographs almost certainly from the late 1960s and early 1970s showing the shop as it was then. The photographs were provided by the Ainsworth family who used to live in Pendle Cottage, which forms a part of the shop building. They were on a journey down memory lane when they called in last weekend.
The first, in black and white and probably dating back to the 1960s, shows a busy scene outside the shop with a farmer trundling by on his Nuffield tractor. Can anyone identify him?
The others, in colour, show the shop and pond, with a Rover saloon parked outside, possibly belonging to the family who lived in the cottage, which was then called Duck Cottage. It was renamed Pendle Cottage when Joan Hardy and her husband moved there in 1982.
It is hoped that old village photographs, and of fetes gone by, will be on display at the village website stand at the fete tomorrow, which opens at 12.30. Full details of fete events can be found on this website on the Latest News menu.
If anyone can shed any further light on the photographs please leave a message on this website.
Looks like Tony Field on the tractor. He always wore a hat like that.
The Morris Traveller in the background may have belonged to Miss Mary Parker (Feathercombe – Eric Parker’s youngest daughter). It was light blue and once a week full of Wolf Cubs on their way to the Pack meeting at the Village Hall… (Tim Coleman and Tim Parker among them…)
Definitely my Dad, Tony Field, driving his tractor.