EASOLE STREET IN NONINGTON, A PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDESHOW
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Easole Street & St. Alban’s Court from the 1859 Poor Law Commissioners map of Nonington
The begining of Easole Street. The first post office building was in the house on the right, the doctor’s surgery on the left
A view from the the begining of Easole Street looking back towards the Royal Oak
Further down the road towards the Baptist chapel outside of The Firs. The orchard to the right now has three bungalows on it.
The Firs, now Cerne House, is just off to the left. The black wooden building was demolished in the 1960’s. Just behind it is the entrance to what is now Easole Heights.
A family group, believed to be the Croft family, at “The Firs”, now Cerne House.
Looking from “The Firs” towards Fredville Park across the old orchard.
Frank Austen’s carpentry shop, now the site of the 1st bungalow on the right of the present Easole Heights. If the lights were on at night it meant he was making a coffin.
Easole Heights looking towards the mills. The bungalow is built on the site of the carpenter’s shop
Easole Street circa 1905-6, some five years or so before the chapel was built. The building visible on the right is believed to be a cottage which occupied the site before the chapel was built.
The Baptist Chapel, in the left background is the roof of one of the two pairs of cottages demolished in the early 1960’s to make way for bungalows
One of the thatched cottages behind the Chapel.
A closer view.
A view from the fields at the rear of the cottages.
Mrs. Hill’s shop in Easole St., opposite the Baptist Chapel. Later run by Mrs. Gillam, it closed in the early 1970’s.
An opposite view of the shop and houses. Just in picture on the right is Shakespeare Cottage, an old 16th century or earlier building which was demolished in the 1970’s.
Shakespeare Cottage, the home of the Washford family
Shakespeare Cottage, Four Limes is immediately to the right of the picture
Four Limes, Easole St., built in the mid-1800’s
Dame Laura Knight circa 1910. She later became a well-known & respected member the Newlyn School of Artists. Laura often visited her sister & uncle in Nonington.
Flying the kite over Newlyn by Laura Knight, 1910
Land Army Girl by Dame Laura Knight, 1940
The Dock at Nuremberg by Dame Laura Knight, 1946
Arthur Bates, the maternal uncle of Laura Knight and Eva Croft. Circa 1915. He lived in Four Limes until his death in 1931
Evaline Croft, known as Sissie, painted in 1896 by her sister Dame Laura Knight. Sissie married Robart [Ro] Crofts, a Canterbury pharmacist whose family lived at “The Firs”, now “Cerne House”. Sissie continued to live in Nonington until her death in 1946.
Eva Crofts design Clarice Cliff Krafton bonjour tea set c 1934
Sissie by Laura Knight, 1945. This portrait was painted a few months before the Sissie’s death in 1946
Whitehouse Farm , once called Esole Farm. Easole Farm, now White House Farm situated on the junction of Easole Street and Beauchamps Lane. The house dates in part from at least the late 1400’s
The Easole St. entrance to Beauchamps Lane
Harvest time and rick making at White House Farm. The old farm buildings were opposite the entrance to the farm and have now been converted into dwellings.
Looking across the old farm yard from the farm house towards Butchers’s Alley
The farm viewed from outside of the Village Hall
Looking towards Butcher’s Alley circa 1913, the Village Hall was not built until the 1920’s. Southdown House, the butcher’s house and shop are in mid-picture, Southdown Cottage is on the right.
The butcher’s shop with Butcher’s Alley leading off to the right. Butcher’s Alley was referred to as Chalk Hill in 19th & early 20th century censuses up
A close view of Southdown House and the butcher’s shop.
Southdown Cottage on the right, Southdown House on the left, with the entrance to Butcher’s Alley in between.
Southdown Cottage, reputed to date back to the 14th century and the entrance to the alley. The Village Hall is in the right back-ground
One of the thatched cottages on Butcher’s Alley, White House Farm can be seen in the left back-ground
The view from the Butcher’s Alley looking towards the chapel
A later view from Butcher’s Alley looking towards Easole Street
The old John Harvey seed merchant’s office and store, now Harvey House.
The old Poor House Cottages opposite the seed store and office which were once used as a store by Harvey’s. They were demolished in the 1950’s and the site is now car parking.
Easole House, now The Old House, was the site of a farmhouse in the early 1500’s
The junction of the Sandwich Road with Mill Lane. The medieval East Stoole Barn can just be seen in the right foreground
The junction of Easole Street and Mill Lane, 1970’s aerial view. On the right, Grinding House Meadow, now Hammond Close . On the left is the old East Stoole Farm house and barn.
Croft’s Chemist, on the corner of Butchery Lane in Canterbury
William and Maria Castle at the rear of the old East Stoole Farmhouse, Mill Lane circa 1900-05. The barn is now a separate dwelling.
Looking back from the Sandwich Road, on the left are Home Farm House and the old bakery and tailor’s houses.
Easole St. going into Sandwich Road. Home Farm to the left and the malt house to the right.
Shady Walk, a shave that ran from Home Farm House to the Sandwich Road entrance of the old St. Alban’s house
The Malt House, built in 1704, circa 1910
The Malt House and the other buildings were also part of John Harvey’s business. The are now used by small businesses.
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