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Harberton Village Centre - northern half

Tillyland (opposite new Parish Hall) when an early (2nd?) Post & Telegraph Office; Constitutional Club, built 1923 by Sir Robert Harvey, converted in the early 1990s into 3 private residences; Pump Cottage (2) with Tillyland behind; Tristford Road east (3) showing No.1 as a single-storey thatched house and a glimpse of the old Henry Wyse almshouses behind the Church House Inn - three Gay's Series postcards which are essentially the same photograph but framed slightly differently and using different lettering
Tristford Road east, colour view similar to above; Tristford Road west; Virginia Cottage, Tristford Road; Vine House, Tristford Road; Henry Wyse Almshouses (click here for more images and information), built 1680, demolished mid 1960s, used to stand behind the Church House Inn;

Church House Inn

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1: Post-1897, church has a clock (installed 1897); note the 'big tree' in the churchyard behind the pub. 2: The village school class appears to be sitting in front of the pub; note the number of chimneys at the front. 3: Village outing, card date on front 14th August 1906 (courtesy Dartington Rural Archive) 4. Same event 5: Post-1948, possibly 1952, the hunt at the pub, note one chimney less and work stains on main and 'prentice' rooves following removal of a chimney after a fire at the pub in 1948. [The Church House Inn was sold on 5th June 1950 by the church trustees to Iris Bamford.] 6. Mark & Betty Goddard with the hunt in 1953. 7. Mark & Betty Goddard (left) again, celebrating the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Emma Widger, sister of Phyllis, is on Mark's left. Emma and Will were stewards at the Constitutional Club. 8. Bar card used by Wilfred & Mary Fry, identical to the one produced a little earlier by Mark & Betty Goddard. 9. 1950s, the chimney removal scars have healed, and the trench repair patterns in the tarmac look the same as on the bar card. 10. Either it's coincidence that the church clock says the same time as 9. or 9. and 10. are essentially the same photo. 11. An E. M. Morison (Totnes) postcard, bearing a 3p stamp, which gives a sending date between Feb 1971 and Sept 1973 12. From the 1977 Jubilee Album, note another change of chimney. 13: For those that know the Church House Inn, this photo is taken from by the double doors. The bar hatch was at the front of the building. The area occupied by the present-day bar was then 3 separate rooms. The 'Square' is behind the wall to the right. 14/15: Photos taken from old bar hatch, looking towards double doors, single front door visible beyond. Wall with leaded light on right is no longer present (two slightly different picture framings). 16. The former Globe Inn, closed in 1952 by Mark & Betty Goddard, which became Marbeth Cottage (and much later Globe House) at the bottom of the village. The sign above the door reads "William H White Retailer of Spirits & Beer to be Consumed on the Premises. Dealer in Tobacco" This property is shown as 'Annexe Cottage' on the bar card at 6.

St Andrew's Church Exteriors

Various exteriors views of St Andrew's Church and churchyard
Church door; Palm cross (2) - different lettering;

St Andrew's Church Interiors

A wide variety of views of Harberton village from different directions and different eras
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Harberton Village Centre - southern half

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Lych Gate & Ford; Ford/Tom Widger; Ford/Church Terrace; Ford/Hunt/Ford Farm; Ford/Ford Farm; Post Office Corner, old (3rd?) Post Office; Victoria Cottages;
Simmons Farm ca. 1880; Marbeth Cottage formerly the Globe Inn; Old Forge Garage (3) - first card dates from around 1965 or later (before 1971) judging from one of the car registrations which appears to be a "C", second card dates after the introduction of "Star" ratings for petrol in 1971 and after addition of extension on right of house, third card dated 1975 - Old Forge Garage was sold for conversion into a private residence in 1977;
Fore Street shop; Reading Room, now Old Hall Cottage;
St Clements Terrace; Harberton (Ebenezer) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (2) was converted from a barn ca. 1840, deeds date back to 1700ish, registered title in 1965, converted to a house in 1974, three of the original four cornerstones are still visible today: "HARBERTON", "EBENEZER" and "LANCASHIRE" (where the movement started); the fourth is partly obscured by internal building work and "..VONSHIRE" remains visible, presumably 'Devonshire', Wesley Place (2);
Harberton (old) Vicarage (3), now known as The Manor since new vicarage was built on the northern edge of Harberton above Pendarves (and just after Pendarves was built) in 1953 or 1954 while Basil Pedley was vicar;

General Views of Harberton

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Views are listed in probably date order View 1: Postmarked 1911, to right of church tower the wooded slopes (known to include chestnut, and laurel planted for game cover) on the hilltop are quite noticeable - today, apart from the strip of woodland between West Lodge and Gills Cross, these fields are open and cultivated. View 2: Gay's ca. 1910: churchyard tree by pub as tall as church tower View 3: Gay's ca. 1910: tall tree, in foreground: Symonds Farm to right and Lanoria Cottages to left View 4: Early, churchyard tree by pub as tall as church tower View 5: Pre-1923 because Constitutional Club not yet built, tall tree in churchyard near pub, Tristford House visible top right, tall tree present by pub View 6: Post-1923 because Constitutional Club present top left. Lilywhite card, indicated by "Copyright" and "Hbn.3", tall tree still present View 7: Pre-1952?, only view to show Globe Inn (white roof) before conversion to private residence in 1952 View 8: Pre-1952, Pendarves not built, yew (centre) plus two other large tree(s) left and right in lower churchyard View 9: Post-1953, Pendarves now built, grass-cutting in churchyard, large tree lower left gone from lower churchyard View 10: Post-1954, 3.15pm (church clock),  Pendarves built, only yew tree left in lower churchyard, tidy garden at Church Cottage opposite pub, View 11: Post-1954, 3.30pm same day, new vicarage built, more grass-cutting in churchyard, man with rake, exactly same washing on line at Church Cottage, pre-mid 1960s because almshouses still behind pub and no School Orchard bungalows yet built View 12: Post-1953/4 and pre-1964 as Pendarves and the new Vicarage are present but the two School Orchard bungalows are not, Tristford House visible top right. View 13: as view 12

Dundridge

Dundridge House to the SE of Harberton village centre

Tristford

Tristford House (and Lodges) to the N of Harberton village centre
West Lodge more text; East Lodge(2); Tristford clock;

Original design drawings (7) from 1844 by George Wightwick for Tristford House (building includes a stone dated 1849), for Mrs Wynne Pendarves, can be seen here:
www.ribapix.com/designs-for-tristford-house-harberton-devon-for-mrs-wynne-pendarves-elevation-of-south-front_riba83262# (scroll left / right to see others)

Other Outlying Places

Sandwell Manor (wrg); Sandwell Manor (wrg), Boys' Brigade; Leigh Bridge (2) W of village; Luscombe Cross (2) E of village
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Miscellaneous

Harberton Boys' Brigade (dra); King George VI coronation celebration 1937 Globe Inn  outing July 1935; School Class of 1957; Harberton (?1960s)
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Test - views

Redone two views, now just 800 and 1200 pixels, and will each open in new window
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