The Common

Included in this section are the Houses and other locations that lie on the Common, and where no road is cited in their postal address.

c1895
Two groups of boys by one of the ponds on the Common.

The building in the background is the Le De Spencers Arms. The location of the pond is shown arrowed on the map below (reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland).



pre 1900
Well Cottage


c1900
Taken from the Common at the end of Plomer Green Lane


1900
Prospect House


c1900-02
Well Cottage (foreground) with Vale Cottage behind


1910
Le De Spencers Arms

On the extreme left is Frederick R Lacey who lived and worked at Hunts Hill Farm in Naphill, just a short walk. The bearded gentleman on the extreme right is Peter of Peter’s Cottage, Littleworth Road.


1912
Mrs Mary Morris standing at the garden fence of Paradise Cottage.

Built in the late 1700s and renamed Eramis House in the early 1900s by Butler William Morris, who took the last two letters of his three names ‘er,am,is’.


1912
Mrs Mary Morris feeding the chickens in the orchard of Eramis House.

1916
Vale Cottage


pre 1926
Vale Cottage (behind the chimneys of Well Cottage), Woodview not yet constructed.


1927
Well Cottage (foreground) with Vale Cottage (midground), with construction of Woodview (background) recently completed.


c1930
Well Cottage (foreground) with Vale Cottage (midground), with construction adjacent to Woodview of other houses (background) recently completed.


1950
Le De Spencer Arms – landlord Stan Brown.


1950


1960
The rear of Prospect House showing the rain-water storage tank. Mains water was not connected until the mid 1960s


1993
The Le De Spencers


1993
Well Cottage (uninhabited)


1998
Well Cottage lying derelict, being uninhabited for 22 years.