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Wimpole Lodge c1922 (below)

Wimpole Estate Woodyard, c1905
Photograph loaned by Brenda and Michael Skinner

Image: c1905. The quality of the original image is rated as ''excellent'.
Location: On the Wimpole Hall Estate (now National Trust).

The image shows estate workers in the Wimpole timber yard around 1905. The Estate woodlands were treated as a commercial venture, with the construction of a sizeable Woodyard and sawmill which employed dozens of tree-fellers, woodsmen and carpenters.

Some of the workers have been identified. On the far left, (holding his saw) is John Bullen. On the far right, (holding his plane) is his son, Andrew Bullen. Both were Estate carpenters and joiners. The gentleman in the centre holding the roll of paper is the Estate agent.

The fifth seated worker from the right has been identified as John Wallis Neaves, known as Jack, who started work at the Woodyard as a carpenter around 1901. He died in France during the First World War and his name can be found on the Wimpole and Arrington War Memorial.