Pymoor - The Village Centre

This is a view along Pymoor Lane looking west towards the the cross roads (61k) at the centre of the village.

Starting at the extreme top right of the picture, you can see the old school (43k).  The School was built in the 1870s to meet the new legislative requirements and closed in 1971.  It served the communities of both Pymoor and Oxlode.  At that time Oxlode was a bigger village than Pymoor.

At the top left, the light grey roofs of the barns of Graleen Farm can be seen.  Below this are the houses on Main Street, while the houses on the road leading off the right of the picture are on Straight Furlong.  The houses on the near side of Straight Furlong back onto the village's Recreation Ground.  The Cricket Club (34k) building can be seen in the centre of the eastern side (nearest the camera) of the recreation ground.  No children's playground equipment can be seen to the right of the Cricket Club building, so this dates the picture before 1993.

The bright white buildings in the centre of the picture are joined to the old black painted windmill. This complex (47k) is now a private residence, but for a time in the early 1990s the ground floor of the mill itself served as the village store.  Hardly the biggest store in the world - about twelve foot in diameter! Before that these buildings were used as a Garden Centre.

The next group of buildings, with grey and white barns visible, is "Lane Farm".  Right at the bottom of the picture, is another yard.  This is opposite "Pymoor Lane Farm", a name seemingly deliberately designed to confuse those new to the village!

If you can give further information about any features shown in this photograph, please let me have it.

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