The Old Malthouse, Stansted - 1920 Postcard

Nice old postcard I found for sale on Ebay showing inside and outside of The Old Malthouse on Malthouse Road, Stansted. Post date is September 1920.

Renovation to Fairseat Farmhouse

Fairseat Farmhouse (sits next to the village pond) has been an empty shell and undergoing renovations for quite a few years now. Here is the side of it taken in March 2016 after the extension had been removed and showing windows to the original building (top grey part is all newly built and not original).

Things seem to be moving on now so maybe it will be finished this year.

Old Postcard of The Manor House, Fairseat

Saw this on Ebay. It was bought in 1957 from the Post Office in Fairseat. I think all the other dates on back of card are when they saw the postcard again, so maybe the person who owned it was some kind of 'postcard spotter', a bit like a train spotter! I might go back and take another picture of the scene now, I doubt much has changed.

Old postcard of Tumblefield Road, Stansted

Another old postcard seen on Ebay. Electric poles on the lane so must have been taken after the installation of electricity.

Corner of Fairseat Postcard

Seen on Ebay, no date. I am wondering if this is a part of Soranks Manor house garden? That gravel path looks familiar, it can be seen through the iron gates, but I would love someone to verify where this is in Fairseat.

New Ash Green History

Website with some interesting reading and photos, all about the concept & development of New Ash Green by Span Kent. SPAN KENT

1937 map of the area

OS Map of the area, dated 1937, scale 1:25,000. I love old maps. It shows there was a Police Station on the left as you came into Fairseat from the Vigo turning. Trosley Towers was still standing but no Vigo Village of course. Also no New Ash Green. The Children's Holiday Home (now Wide Horizons Margaret McMillan House) on the A227 was there, so that has been around for a long time.

There is a big area of parkland around Pettings Court, so I'm thinking this was probably lost to agricultural land during WWII. Some of the old parkland trees remain in the grass fields as I often walk the footpaths which go over the old parkland. I would love to know when the parkland was broken up.

The Hope and Anchor up at Ash is listed as BH, which apparently stands for 'Beer House'. I'd never heard of a Beer House before, and didn't know what the difference was between that and a Pub so looked it up, found this on Wikipedia:
The Beerhouse Act enabled anyone to brew and sell beer on payment of a licence costing two guineas (£2.10 in decimal currency, not adjusted for inflation).

Click on the map and it will go much larger.