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Brays Green Cottage, Brays Green Lane circa 1939 - this is approximately
where the junction of Walnut Way and Brays Green Lane are today. The front
door of the cottage was directly opposite the big barred gate (now metal, once
wooden) on the other side of the lane. Elizabeth and her daughter Mary are
at the rear of the group.
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The Saunders family circa 1920
Back row: Alfred (1902) James Saunders (1881)
Mary (1903)
Front row: Robert (Bob), Ellen, Elizabeth Hannah (nee Higgs - 1880)
Right - Alf Saunders feeding pigs on land opposite Brays Green Cottage - the wooden
sties were later brick built.
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Golden Wedding 1951 - four generations of the family in Brays Green Lane outside
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Meadow on which houses now stand.
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Four
generations of the Saunders family - April 1949 - Easter
Elizabeth Hannah Higgs (left), her daughter Mary Saunders (right),
her daughter Elizabeth Maria (Betty) Rose Lopez (middle) with her
daughter Christine Ann Beveridge - now Allen who has kindly loaned the
photographs.
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July 1949 - Betty on the Cherry Ladder in the
orchard |
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These were taken in the Cherry Orchard which was part of Christine's great
grandfather's
smallholding. Cherries were a valuable cash crop - some of the local lads
George Nash and Trevor and Michael Jordan were employed to scare and shoot the
blackbirds in order to protect the Cherry crop.
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Left: 1955 - Mary, Elizabeth, James,
Christine, Janet & Lynn in the orchard. |
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Right: 1964 - at a family wedding at Chalfont St Giles - Elizabeth
with great granddaughter Christine |
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