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PHOTOGRAPH: Above. Nightingales Farm, Breach Oak Lane, Fillongley. 1900c
WOOD END, FILLONGLEY.
Fillongley is situated in the old Forest of Arden and is a scattered settlement. Place names like Wood End and Green End are typical, indicating a 'clearing' in the forest from earlier times.
Wood End has a number of old farms, cottages and houses, some dating back to the 16th century.
David Barr, born 1831, wrote about his early memories of Wood End. (Climbing the Ladder - available to read in Birmingham Record Office). His father was a shoemaker and his mother supplemented his earnings by silk ribbon weaving on a hand-loom, which was a commonplace occupation in the cottage homes. They attended a Nonconformist place of worship and this aroused a feeling of bitterness and the patronage of the Church people was withdrawn, so his father had to travel miles in search of orders.
PHOTOGRAPH BELOW: NIGHTINGALES FARM, BREACH OAK LANE, WOOD END, FILLONGLEY
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photo above: 1900c. NIGHTINGALES FARM, BREACH OAK LANE, WOOD END, FILLONGLEY.
photo below: 1900c. IVY COTTAGE, Wood End Lane. George Davis (son in law to Mary Hutt nee Steane). George married Ettie Hutt (born 1882). The child: Mary Hutt, Born 1897.
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Photo above: BIG HOUSE FARM, Breach Oak Lane. Grade II listed building. Built 1775c. Was home of Jim and Mavis Hopkins from approx 1960 - 2012.
Photo below: GRANGE COTTAGE, Wood End Lane. Grade II half timbered listed building. Was originally the 'Grange' until the 'new' Grange was built in 1800's - and then it became the 'gardener's cottage.'. (The Grange was built as a home for Richard and Francis Hollick).
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Above: Wedding Photograph of Albert and Harriet Goolding.
Above right: Albert and Harriet Goolding, with their children, Ruth, Albert, Arthur and Maud, outside the Grove, Wood End Lane 1907c (See further down: two photos of the Grove.)
Below: ALBERT GOOLDING outside the Grove.
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BELOW: WOOD END COTTAGES. Originally three cottages, purchased by George and Janet Ryder in 1963 and converted into one home. It had two outside toilets, a wash house and water pump.
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Above: Broomfield Cottage, Wood End Lane.
Below: Methodist Chapel and Caretakers Cottage in Church Lane, Fillongley. Opened 1893.
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