Old Postcard of Brattle Place, AKA The Hilltop, Stansted

All my recent findings seem to be old postcards found on Ebay, and here is another! Quite interesting, as I've never seen it before.

I had to look up Brattle Place, and it is what The Hilltop used to be called.

Have also never seen a picture of the Post Office with the white criss cross fence in front of it.

Doesn't have a date, but the postcard took a 1/2d stamp, and postage went up to 1d for postcards in 1918, so it pre-dates that.

Stansted from Plaxdale Green Road - old Postcard

An old postcard. Good view of the Black Horse pub, Church Cottage (with church spire peeking out behind) and the house down in the valley. Just look at how it contrasts with what you can see now! The white house has been much extended and you can only just see the chimney pot of the pub. Everything else has disappeared behind trees. I'm not sure what era this dates from, but that car looks like a Model T Ford, and there are telegraph poles. Very much a guess at sometime between 30s-50s?

1940s local pictures at Historic England - The Malt House, Stansted

See original here

Love this photo!Look at that pretty wild flower meadow in the garden...

1940s local pictures at Historic England - Old Manor Cottage, Stansted

See original here

Old Manor Cottage, on Plaxdale Green Road, with a recent photo from 2014

1940s local pictures at Historic England - The Manor, Fairseat

View original with date here

1940s local pictures at Historic England - St Marys, Stansted

I also research another area I'm very fond of, where my Grandfather lived near Banbury. Whilst doing that, I found these lovely photos from the 40s of Fairseat and Stansted. I'm going to post them individually, here are the ones of the church. 

See original pictures here 

Hodsall Street - Green Man, old postcard

I will hopefully get a better copy of this sometime, without the over mark. the pub looks very different now, with its white rendering on the walls.