Chapel Lane, Part II, Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK.

All pictures are presented at relatively low resolution.  These pictures are part of a collection supplement.

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A view down Little Lane with the steamroller shed still standing.  The house in view at the bottom of the lane was at the centre of an argument between villagers and officials in 1938 - see below.

At the bottom of Little Lane which runs off somewhat towards the left.  This building, which is also shown in 09-08 in Part I, has a rounded corner to ease negotiation into Little Lane from Chapel Lane.  It was demolished in 1938.

This is the other side of the house with the rounded corner and is also pictured in Part I in image 09-05.
View towards the farm house at the bottom of Little Lane (see images 09-17 to 09-22 in part I).  Villagers attempted to get a judge to overturn the district councils decision to demolish this house and three others in this vicinity.  The bid failed.  The problem was that the houses were owned by the council who took them unsold from the Grafton Estate.  They placed families in the houses until they could no longer do that once the rulings on provision of sewers were laid out in c 1933 by central government.  The occupants had to be re-housed and, to avoid any 'business' that the council couldn't easily deal with, they simply ordered demolition.

 

 

The out-barn of the above house in the process of being demolished.

 

 

 

A view across from a High Street back garden (probably Foster or Burbidge) looking over what has become the top of Westbrook.  The row of houses are in Chapel Lane next to the chapel.  They were all demolished in c1960 just before one of them fell of its own accord!  See the pictures (image 09-03) of the Townsend family in Part I.
The same view - it suggests a well wooded village at one time.