Buildings

The Old Vicarage

 

Fleur de Lis
Fleur De Lis
South View also showing 7 Forge Square. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-18)
South View also showing 7 Forge Square. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-18)

There are also several photos of the Leigh area via the Kent Photo Archive. Just search on Leigh.

The Cottage High Street - original drawing
The Cottage High Street – original drawing
South View also showing 7 Forge Square. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-18)
South View also showing 7 Forge Square. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-18)
Old Chimneys 1940s/1950s
Old Chimneys 1940s/1950s
Oak Cottage during Second World War - see tape across window panes. Also second chimney on right - south side - demolished ?1950s - not clear in this picture. Downstairs windows were arched as in existing north window upstairs. Also open porch/tiled canopy.
Oak Cottage during Second World War – see tape across window panes. Also second chimney on right – south side – demolished ?1950s – not clear in this picture. Downstairs windows were arched as in existing north window upstairs. Also open porch/tiled canopy.
View towards Leigh Church, ca 1887/88.
Before the erection between of South View (1890) and the new Forge Square of 6 cottages (7 homes) ca? 1888-1890. It is the only picture we have which shows the layout of the cottages at that time. The charity cottages are there; then there are three buildings which appear to consist of one small cottage, plus two larger cottages which would have been known as Forge Row and provided accommodation for 6/7 households, at the very end of the picture, quite indistinct, is the Forge.
View of Leigh School – note no pavement encircling Green, and children playing on the road.
Garden Cottages in 1909 when they were new. The right hand cottages had not been completed.
The Forge, 1 Forge Square and further along, South View.
Probably Rose Cottage which, with its garden, stood on the site now occupied by Charlotte Bungalows. The property to the right looks like the White House.
No.6 Forge Square. Probably pre-1920. House is still thatched.
The Forge and 1 Forge Square (the police house)
Towards South View from the Vicarage pre-1920. Note the house was still thatched.
Church Lane Cottages – aka Church Hill ca 1968
Oak Tree Cottages, situated next to Leigh allotments. Picture taken early 1930s. Cottages were thatched and in front garden is Bernard Lucas.

The Old Vicarage. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton (vicar of Leigh 1906-18)
The Forge to Forge Cottage. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton (vicar of Leigh 1906-18)
Parish Charity Cottages (on right) and South View. The Charity Cottages were built about 1865 by the Vestry and were demolished ca 1913 at the request of Samuel Hope Morley who provided Chestnuts (new) and Nos 1 and 2 Cherry Tree Cottages instead.
Lightfoot Cottages , 1921. Lot 24 in the auction of Penshurst Place Estate
South View, date unclear: Originally built as a convalescent home in about 1890 by the architects Sir Ernest George and Peto. Photo from The Studio, vol. 10 p.179

 

"Leigh West Entrance" - now Pepperpot 1904

Leigh West Entrance – Pepperpot/Pinnacle:  from a postcard sold by W Anderson, The Post Office, Leigh

 

 

 

Post Office in the Square ca 1930s
Post Office in the Square ca 1930s

 

 

The Square, and Southdown House as Butchers Shop - date unknown
The Square, and Southdown House as Butchers Shop – date unknown, but says Whitehead Butchers (Mr Whitehead ran the Butchers here from 1922-1959.