General Views

General Views of Leigh:

View Across Green from Cherry Tree Cottages, Green Lane
View Across Green from Cherry Tree Cottages, Green Lane

 

Church Hill. From album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-1918). View does not show the cottages on the right hand side, just entrance gate to them.
Church Hill. From album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-1918). View does not show the cottages on the right hand side, just entrance gate to them.

 

Leigh Church, taken after 1913 when the charity cottages in this area of garden had been pulled down. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-18)
Leigh Church, taken after 1913 when the charity cottages in this area of garden next to South View had been pulled down. 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)
South View also showing 7 Forge Square. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton Vicar of Leigh 1906-18)

 

 

View of East Lodge and Church ca 1910
View of East Lodge and Church ca 1910

 

 

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.

 

Old Chimneys 1940s/1950s
Old Chimneys 1940s/1950s

 

View of Leigh School – note no pavement encircling Green, and children playing on the road.

 

Leigh High Street looking East. Note wall on left in front of what was then Park Cottages – now the Stone House and Park Cottage. The wall has in part been demolished to make way for car access. On the right the first house of The Square.

 

Garden Cottages in 1909 when they were new. The right hand cottages had not been completed.

 

Engineers Cottages, High Street

 

 

Leigh Forge and back of Forge Square Cottages towards church

 

1 Park Cottage, High Street, Leigh. Taken ca 1950s before the bungalows were built.
Home of James and Susan Fitzjohn until 1910. Tenancy continued with their son, Fred and his wife, Emily and family until Emily died in Jan 1968. Fred had died in 1948.

 

 

The Forge, 1 Forge Square and further along, 1 Forge Square.

 

No.6 Forge Square. Probably pre-1920. House is still thatched.

 

Towards South View from the Vicarage pre-1920. Note the house was still thatched.

 

The Old Vicarage

 

Trough on corner of village green: school in distance; Forge Cottage on right. Note no walkway around the Green. ?pre-WW1.

 

View towards South View and Church, showing footpaths across Green plus horsedrawn vehicles – ?post 1913 as the charity cottages that were in the garden were pulled down after 1913.

 

MOORDEN COTTAGES, LEIGH, KENT

 

 

Gardens at Hall Place

 

Brickmakers Arms, plus view looking up the Hill towards two terraces of cottages furthest in picture) which were pulled down to make way for Saxby Wood in 1968/69. Also pair of buildings next to brickmakers would be Engineers Cottages (today Engineers Cottage and Sandalwood.
Brickmakers Arms, plus view looking up the Hill towards two terraces of cottages furthest in picture) which were pulled down to make way for Saxby Wood in 1968/69. Also pair of buildings next to brickmakers would be Engineers Cottages (today Engineers Cottage and Sandalwood.

 

Pear Tree Cottages, 1953, the High Street towards Penshurst. Later replaced by Saxby Wood.
The General Store – under Mr Lindridge, early 1920s.

 

 

St. Mary’s with the former parish cottages knocked down. 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)

 

Porcupine House. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton (vicar of Leigh 1906-18)

 

Lower Green through the Railway Bridge. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton (vicar of Leigh 1906-18)

 

High Street in Winter. Christmas card produced 1990

 

Paul’s Farm Oast 1990. This was restored c. 1986

 

Aerial view of Leigh and St Mary’s Church. Postcard, 1980

 

The Green from thesSouth showing St Mary’s Church and the War Memorial. Postcard, 1940s

 

The Green from the southeast corner. Postcard, 1940s

 

High Street looking East from Southdown House. Postcard, 1940s

 

High Street looking East from just above Lower Green. Postcard, c. 1940s

 

Paul’s Hill and Paul’s Hill Oast. Postcard, c. 1940

 

Village Green taken from southwest corner towards St Mary’s Church

 

The Green from Oak Cottage showing the footpath across to Powdermill Lane. Postcard produced by E.A. Sweetman & Sons Ltd., Tunbridge Wells. Probably 1920s

 

Forge House, No 1 Forge Square and the War Memorial 1920s. Postcard published by J Salmon, Sevenoaks from an original watercolour by A.R. Quinton

 

Lower Green, looking towards the High St. with the Bakery on the left and The Brickmaker public house in the centre, c. 1920

 

Penshurst Road from the four charity cottages (now the site of Saxby Wood) - then the two cottages known as Engineers Cottages (today Engineers Cottage and Sandelwood) to the Brickmakers Arms and beyond. Postcard postmarked 1915
Penshurst Road from the four charity cottages (now the site of Saxby Wood) – then the two cottages known as Engineers Cottages (today Engineers Cottage and Sandelwood) to the Brickmakers Arms and beyond. Postcard postmarked 1915

 

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.

 

Old Kennards. One of the oldest houses in Leigh. Photo c. 1910.

 

The Post Office (now Southdown House) 1920s. Postcard published by J Salmon, Sevenoaks from an original watercolour by A.R. Quinton

 

Cherry Tree Cottages (on left). Photo taken from where the back gardens of Green View Avenue are today.

 

East Lodge and Lych Gate. Note the gas light to the left, and large tree (oak?) to right of the lych gate

 

Anderson’s Village Shop (Post Office and General Store owned by William Anderson) and Forge Cottage/House. The latter built after 1872. Photo likely to be 1916-18

 

The Gate House (now Porcupine House), c. 1940

 

West Gate, Hall Place. c. 1940

 

The War Memorial, Leigh, 1920s, with South View and Church . Postcard published by J Salmon, Sevenoaks from an original watercolour by A.R. Quinton.

 

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

 

The War Memorial

 

The Forge to Forge Cottage showing footpath across the Green. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton (vicar of Leigh 1906-18)

 

Southview House and St Mary’s Church. Photograph from the album of Rev. Octavius Walton (vicar of Leigh 1906-18)

 

South View

 

 

Photograph of a painting by C S Meacham, 1922, showing Hildenborough at the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Tonbridge Road.
Photograph of a painting by C S Meacham, 1922, showing Hildenborough at the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Tonbridge Road.