Hempstead - The Street

The Street starts at the junction with the Holt to Baconsthorpe Road at the top of Court_Green, then runs southeast to White Horse Cottages before turning south all the way to through the village to the junction with Marlpit Lane where it becomes Pond Hills Road.


White Horse Cottages with the Old White Horse pub sign post to the left - c.1974	White Horse Cottages - 22nd June 2021

Village Hall - 8th November 2021


Church Cottages - c.1935	Southern Church Cottage decked out for King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 - note the W. I. cup in the window


Looking west from Chapel Lane to Church Cottages on The Street - c.1974	Church Cottages with the parking area on the green bottom right - 19th October 2017

Claudine & Ray Fuller getting milk from a churn left by a farmer in front of
Middle Cottage with the old Post Office just beyond - 1979


Village Van on the parking area during Covid lockdown - 1st May 2020	Church Cottages with the old Post Office to their right - 17th May 2020


Looking south towards the junction with Marlpit Lane and Pond Hills Road - c.1975	Looking south towards the junction with Marlpit Lane and Pond Hills Road - 9th Nov 2021


Looking north with Church Cottages ahead, The Lodge wall to the right and the Vicarage to the left - c.1974	Long gone pond near the entrance to Juniper Lodge - c.1975


Captain John T. M. Mee - c.1936	Don Foreman in front of The Lodge holding Arrogant Anne, an ex racehorse belonging to Elizabeth Hagen - c.1950

Cpt. John Theodore Martin Mee lived at The Lodge during the 1930s. He was a poultry farmer and bred pedigree Light Sussex & Buff Leghorns. Cpt. Mee was married to Marianne (née Francis).

When Cpt. Mee left The Lodge, a Mrs. Hotblack lived there, then Don Foreman, followed by John Parker and his family, before Paul Loach moved in.

Clamp Lane to the left; Marlpit Lane to the right, the Street ahead
and Pond Hills Road nearest the camera - 6th November 2021


Clamp Lane running west from the crossroads 6th November 2021	Marlpit Lane running east from the crossroads 6th November 2021

RAF aerial photo of 1946 - showing the full length of Clamp Lane before its western section was bulldozed by David Johnson in the 1960s

O. S. Map 1885
The Street runs from Court (Hempstead) Green in the north to Marlpit Lane in the south marked with the red dots
Courtesy of NLS map images