EPW001710 ENGLAND (1920). Station Road and environs, Thames Ditton, 1920

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Title [EPW001710] Station Road and environs, Thames Ditton, 1920
Reference EPW001710
Date June-1920
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Place name THAMES DITTON
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 515830, 166876
Longitude / Latitude -0.33513018986055, 51.388593821089
National Grid Reference TQ158669

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Does anyone know what this field was used for? Equestrian training maybe? The right-hand half is now a public carpark; the rest I suspect is in private hands.

KiwiMike
Monday 24th of October 2016 10:28:29 PM
A.C. Cars factory (off the High Street)

Jon
Sunday 28th of October 2012 07:56:17 PM
The AC car factory is now the Harvest Lane gated estate built, I think, in 1987/8 or theresabout. It comprises 47 2,3 and 4-bedroom homes built over eight terrace blocks.

KiwiMike
Monday 24th of October 2016 09:59:43 PM
Home Park (Hampton Court).

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 10:19:26 PM

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 10:11:04 PM
Thames Ditton Station platform

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 09:49:07 PM
Home of Compassion, Thames Ditton

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 09:39:11 PM
St Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 09:34:42 PM
Norman origins.



http://www.stnicholaschurch.org.uk/about-history.html

KiwiMike
Monday 24th of October 2016 10:06:24 PM

Class31
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 05:21:26 PM
This House was Basing House situated in Watts Road, with grounds behind given over to new housing in Basing way and Basing Drive. Later (1950's?) more of Basing House grounds were sold of to housing development despite a covenent from sellers( Mr and Mrs Emsworth) that remaining grounds should be left intact as part of Basing House.

Ronald
Friday 14th of February 2014 02:39:03 PM

Class31
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 05:12:26 PM
This track is now the approximate route of Basing Way

Dave Brunt
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 04:04:18 PM
Is this person ploughing? Looks like it but the surrounding area doesnt look like a farming area?

SteveAUS
Thursday 5th of July 2012 06:45:44 AM
Maybe haymaking?

SteveP
Thursday 5th of July 2012 07:31:32 AM
Hi SteveAUS,



The horse and boy makes it look like ploughing, but the ground doesn't appear to be turned over so perhaps the grass is being cut or scoured - on the historical Ordnance Survey mapping this is an open area of ground with the footpath running through, but no labelling to give a park name, field name or to indicate allotments, for example.



Yours, Katy



Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Katy Whitaker
Wednesday 5th of September 2012 10:47:16 AM
That's really interesting nutmeg. Maybe the landowner (which could have been the local authority I guess, in this built-up area) executed their responsibility for grass cutting by making hay!



Yours, Katy

Katy Whitaker
Friday 28th of June 2013 01:32:58 PM
This area would still have been agricultural in 1920 - compare earlier OS maps. I expect it was part of nearby Manor Farm (technically Weston Manor Farm) which was on the other side of the railway at bottom of photo. The last remnant of Manor Farm was still being worked as a farm (I remember cattle) in the 1950s, before being sold for school sports fields etc. There was much controversy about demolition of its medieval house and barns in the early 1960s. My mother (born 1908) remembered cornfields on Station Rd in her youth (earlier I wrote that it was hayfields before checking my facts - but the crop could change). This is probably haymaking as the photo was taken in June. On examining field more closely it looks as if the man with the horse is turning the hay to dry it, as he has left a darker line behind him. This is not bare earth as the soil of footpath cutting through the field is a different colour.

nutmeg
Sunday 30th of June 2013 03:15:33 PM
Railway tracks?

EastMarple1
Saturday 30th of June 2012 10:55:52 AM
There is not a train line here.

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 10:13:31 PM
Either Summer Road, or the river Thames.

Jon
Sunday 28th of October 2012 08:04:16 PM
Towpath and bank on opposite side of Thames.

nutmeg
Sunday 30th of June 2013 05:47:59 AM
Smoke from steam train

EastMarple1
Saturday 30th of June 2012 10:54:33 AM
There is not a railway line here.

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 10:14:33 PM
... and never was!

KiwiMike
Monday 24th of October 2016 09:51:45 PM
Church with small spire

EastMarple1
Saturday 30th of June 2012 10:51:22 AM
St. Nicholas' Church

Class31
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 05:10:40 PM
St Nicholas'Church indeed. Norman origins.



http://www.stnicholaschurch.org.uk/about-history.html

KiwiMike
Monday 24th of October 2016 10:05:48 PM
Cupola? Church?

EastMarple1
Saturday 30th of June 2012 10:49:45 AM
Boyle Farm Stables [Home of Compassion}

Dave Brunt
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 04:01:50 PM
clock and bell tower on Home of Compassion chapel

D Mallett
Sunday 2nd of June 2013 05:50:46 PM

EastMarple1
Saturday 30th of June 2012 10:48:01 AM
This may have been a pub once but I think it is the building occupied by Wine Rack on Streetmap.

Graham
Monday 3rd of September 2012 10:16:29 PM
The "George and Dragon" PH is located just east of the junction of Watts Road, Station Road, and the High Street.

Jon
Sunday 28th of October 2012 08:01:13 PM
This could be a railway station platform with vitreous enamel signs attached to the fence. The Midland Railway used diagonal slatted station platform fencing like this.

TonyW1960
Friday 29th of June 2012 10:12:51 PM
Thames Ditton Station

Dave Brunt
Tuesday 7th of August 2012 04:02:22 PM

User Comment Contributions

The diagonal footpath is roughly along the current alignment of what is now Basing Way, coming off Station Road near the Manor House - the field is shown as "Basing Field" on the 1843 Tithe map and apportionment. The railway station and line to Hampton Court is off to to the left of the picture, with just a bit of the 'up' platform just being visible at the bottom of the image. Basingfield Road runs roughly along the track alignment running left to right along which the horse is moving. The A.C. Cars factory is also visible in the village centre.

Jon
Sunday 28th of October 2012 07:55:09 PM