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Hawthorn Village - Hawthorn (hawt0024)

The Crossroads On The Old A19 Road
Hawthorn Quarry

Photograph of houses, mainly obscured by trees, on one side of a road, the surface of which is in the foreground and running away to the right, of the photograph; the houses have tiled roofs which appear to be of some age; the facade of another house can be seen in the distance on the opposite side of the road from the other houses; a car is parked in the middle distance; the photograph has been identified as Hawthorn Village

Hawthorn Village - Hawthorn

Photograph of houses, mainly obscured by trees, on one side of a road, the surface of which is in the foreground and running away to the right, of the photograph; the houses have tiled roofs which appear to be of some age; the facade of another house can be seen in the distance on the opposite side of the road from the other houses; a car is parked in the middle distance; the photograph has been identified as Hawthorn Village

Date: 1960 - 1969

The taller of the two houses, behind the tree, is Garden House. Main residence of the Newby family and as I remember had a large walled garden behind it.

Comment added by Anonymous on 18/03/2009 11:05:00

The first house was demolished, and later rebuilt, the taller and was built as a quaker school, later it became the Newby family home

Comment added by Simon Hall on 18/03/2009 11:29:00

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