Little History of Cherington and Stourton: Picture Album One

	A Little History of Cherington and Stourton
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Click to enlarge	Captions: see Documentation		* indicates an illustration from the 1934 edition.
	Cover of the original Little History, published in 1934.	*		Cherington House was built by ancestors of the author and she used this photograph of it to illustrate her Little History.	*
	Bookplate of Anthony Dickins, born at Cherington in 1734	*		A pencil sketch of Cherington House, drawn in the 1930s, when Capt. Herdman and his family were in residence.
	When the author gave a copy of her work to cousin Harriet Eleanora (Nora) Dickins of Cherington, both ladies wrote their names in the book.			A stylised drawing of Cherington House, built at the turn of the eighteenth century by William Dickins.
	This photograph of Cherington was taken in 1895.	*		Cherington House on a bright January morning in 2003.
	A modern photograph of Cherington taken in 2003 from the same spot.			"The Lower House", which is referred to in Chapter VII of A Little History of Cherington and Stourton.	*
	The Green, Stourton, c. 1916.			The Lower House is today known as Dickins' Dairy.
	The Green, Stourton, 2003.			Two old Stourton houses.	*
	"Cherington Church from the Rectory garden"	*		This Stourton farmhouse belonged to the landowning Shaw family for generations.
	Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Cherington			The War Memorial stands at the top of Featherbed Lane, where the two villages of Cherington and Stourton meet.
	Figure on the south wall of the church.			Memorial in Cherington church to two local soldiers who died in the Second World War
	A second figure on the south wall of the church.			All but one of the names on the War Memorial are of soldiers who lost their lives in the first world war.
	Figure on the north wall of the church, held by some to be the head of John the Baptist.			Cherington and Stourton men volunteering to fight in the Great War. Sept 10 1914.
	14th century tomb of a franklin in the Parish Church.	*		Haymaking at Mr Harry Shaw's farm in Stourton, in the early twentieth century.
	Modern photograph of the tomb of the franklin.			Pressing cider apples on the Green at the village of Sutton-under-Brailes, half a mile from Stourton.
	Detail of tomb of the franklin.