Here's Northop Church in the winter of 1911, taken at 1.35pm according to the clock - how different Northop looks now - not a car in sight! Fast forward to today and gone are the cottages on the left to make way for road widening (in the late seventies), but the church remains as it was then, including the yew trees, which have hardly altered in over 100 years.
Note the cottage inhabitants at their doors participating in the image. I know some of my ancestors lived in Northop but not in these cottages. The 1911 Census suggests they might have had the surname Jones, Davies or Foulkes but we'll never know... unless anyone out there knows differently!
The Blenheim Boys
‘The devotion and gallantry… are beyond all praise. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava is eclipsed in brightness by these almost daily deeds of fame.’
Winston Churchill on the Blenheim Crews - Prime Minister’s Personal Minute, M.852/1, 30 August 1941
