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• View of Hollowell Manor looking over the front wall. The house is dated 1665.
  Formally called The Laurels.
  
• Hillview, Guilsborough Hill
  It is thought the main part of this house dates from the 1830s. It was built for a Mr Chapman, plumber and glazier.
  
  Picture 3 is of the corbelling on the back of the house just at the entrance to the Jetty.
• Hillside Cottage, Guilsborough Hill
  Two views of the cottage next to Hillview and just below Stone House Farm. It used to be two small cottages.
• Stone House Farm, Guilsborough Hill
  The main stone building used to be the farmhouse. It was reduced in size in the 1950s (we think), the corrugated roof was fitted and since then it has been used for storage.
• Hill House, Guilsborough Hill
  It was the Coach and Horses public house, Hollowell's only pub. There was also the Red Lion, also on Guilsborough Hill and since demolished, but that was an alehouse, so not licenced to sell wines and spirits.
• The Mill, Hollowell
  This is the old mill on Creaton Road, Hollowell.
  
  The dam of Hollowell Reservoir can be seen on the right.
  
  In December 2019 Simon Armstrong lived there.
• The Poplars in Creaton Road
  This is the Poplars in Creaton Road, round the corner from the bus shelter.
• Kent Cottage in Creaton Road
  this is the only remaining thatched cottage in Hollowell.
• Ivy Cottage, Creaton Road
  Here are three photos of the cottage.
• Aerial View of Hillview and Hillside Cottage,Guilsborough Hill
  The estimated date of the photo is 1995,6.
• The Church Room, Teeton
  A view of the Church Room, Teeton, taken probably in the early 1900s?
  
  This is a postcard. On the back there is no information as to the source of the photo, it just has printed "This is a real photograph".
  
  Date not known. Looking at the clothing in H0118 we estimate that the pictures were taken in the early 1900s.
  
  It is now called The Olde Church House.
• A Teeton Cottage
  This is a picture of a thatched cottage in Teeton, no longer there..
  
  1880? The date is a guess.
  
  This is on the road to Creaton. The cottage on the right of the image is one end of the last house on the left going out of the village towards Creaton.
• Bernard and Vera Lewis in front of their Farm cottage
  This is the cottage where Ian and Jill Brown now live.
• Hollowell Home Farm House Grandma Lewis & Auntie Cis.
  You can see looking up Guilsborough Hill that the next house is The Red Lion ale house, since pulled down.
  
  This is the Grandmother of Vera Lewis (maiden name).
  
  Below are notes on a visit by Vera, aged 98, to Jan and Crawford at Hillview, June 2018.
  
  Lewis is Vera’s maiden name. She was born in 1919 and lived in what is now Ian and Gill Brown’s cottage. Her parents had moved there in 1916. She had a brother Bernard who was nearly 4 years younger. Her grandfather, Tom Lewis, lived in the farmhouse where Mrs Parish subsequently lived, which is on the corner of Guilsborough Hill and Orchard Close. She described the cottage where she lived as being opposite the vicarage where Mr Leatherland lived, and we assume that is what is now called Beech House.
  
  In 1929 the Lewis family moved to Guilsborough. When Vera was 14 she returned to Hollowell as kitchen maid to the Renton sisters, who lived at Hollowell Manor. Their staff included, in addition to Vera, a cook (Hetty Stafford), a ladies maid, a housemaid and a butler (Mr Masters). The housemaid was Vera Shadlock who after she left aged 17 ish went into Nurse training at Northampton Hospital & eventually became a Matron. Vera Lewis stayed at Hollowell Manor for 3 years and then moved to Hazelbech Hill. She subsequently married and moved to West Haddon. Her first husband, Ted, lived in Rugby. Vera told us that prior to buying Hollowell Manor the Rentons lived in Guilsborough “at the top of Church Hill”.
  
  Vera mentioned Jack Leatherland (living at the vicarage, see above?) who had no children and Jan Leatherland who had sons Jim and Fred and some daughters. Vera also remembered Mr Haines, and my notes list Reg, Steven, Lily, Barbara and Margaret, living at “Litchfield’s Farm”.
  
  There were 4 Claridge children, one named Phylis, whose mother had died.
  There were about 20 in the class at the school. Miss violet Beatrice Florey was the school teacher, who lodged above the wood yard during the week.
  
  The village shop was run by Mrs Clifton and sold groceries. The Bonsors delivered milk. They had 4 farm horses and she remembers 3 of them were named Rupert (very patient), Prince and Pat.
  
  The vicar was Mr Ropel who lived with his wife and her sister, Miss Davis.
  
  Questions
  Borwicks Baking Powder?
  We don’t know Vera’s married name?
  “Harvest: brother Bill was first one to steer” – a different brother, or a Bonsor?