Reflections of a Bygone Era - Early photographs from around the end of the 19th/start of the 20th Century of landmarks and people from the village of Caythorpe in Lincolnshire, UK.

Gallery 4

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Unknown

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Caythorpe Hall

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Believed to be the nearby village of Normanton

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Unknown

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Unknown but clearly not local to Caythorpe given the rock structures

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Unknown - perhaps the last English champion of Wimbledon

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Oak Apple day outside the old Eight Bells pub (now a private residence). The landlord of the pub at the time is believed to have been a Mr Oxb(e)y. The names of two of the children are known (they are both distant relations of Geoff Owen who owns these plates):
front row far right is Isaac Metheringham ("Pinky") and front row fourth from the right is Esther Beresford

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This chap with his cart outside the old Eight Bells pub is apparently the village carrier who delivered goods bought at market

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The old Sun Inn in Caythorpe High Street has long since closed for business. Apparently there used to be a fish and chip shop out back

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This picture has a title: Caythorpe Club Feast and is dated 1908

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All that remains of this splendid building in Old Lincoln Road is the left hand gatepost. The design on the gatepost is a clue to its name, Holy Cross

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A meeting (believed to be in 1905) of the Belvoir Hunt at Frieston. The road bending off to the right is now the A607

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Another view of the old Eight Bells pub with Bonner's Saddlery just visible on the left

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Caythorpe High Street. The school (still here today) is at the far end of the street on the right

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The fair comes to Caythorpe. This one is believed to be Smith and Warren's of Lincoln

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The gardens of Holy Cross (see photo no 67)