ONE HORSE POWER: A horse and cart outside in the early 1900s.
WE turn the clock back to Woodrow Lane in Catshill, Bromsgrove, in the early 1900s for our weekly glance down Memory Lane.
Reader Bob Baker has sent in this photograph of Woodrow Farm house, which now forms part of his home and is now known as Woodrow Croft.
He said the photo was passed to him by a relative of a previous occupier of the house who found the original photograph in the roof space. It has since been computer enhanced.
Bob told us he has documents mentioning Woodrow Farm as early as 1558 in a probate document of Humfreye Hyll plus information up to the 1950s.
He believes that the house, as seen in the photograph, was built in the early 1700s, although some of the timber beams appear to have been recycled from perhaps the original farm house. The house was converted into three separate dwellings in the 1950s plus the stables/coach house was made into a bungalow.
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