Major and Mrs. Bartholomew lived at Little Thurlow Park. Major Bartholomew was chairman of the Almshouse Trustees and involved in the exchange of the old almshouses for the new ones in The Square. He attended Little Thurlow Church and always sat in the Soames Chapel pew.

Brigadier and Mrs. Frink lived in the Grange. Brigadier Frink had lived all his life in the village, except when serving in the army, and was a good friend and confidant to most people in the village. Most mornings he could be found in The Cock, then run by Sid and Rene Rowlinson.

Most of the other houses in the village belonged to Mr. R. A. Vestey at that time, and were generally occupied by farm and estate workers or pensioners.

Mr. Spencer Tilbrook was the tenant of Manor Farm. He lived there with his two sisters and was a marvellous example of an old fashioned tenant farmer. He was invariably dressed in breeches and gaiters and went round his farm on a bicycle. All the harvest was cut with a binder and brought into the farmyard, for threshing during the winter. He had a large staff of farm workers, all of whom had been with him from their schooldays.

Mr. and Mrs. Alec Sadler ran the Post Office. Besides sorting and delivering the mail, they also ran the telephone exchange and all calls were dealt with personally by one of them.

Mr. Spider Webb ran the pub at Little Thurlow Green, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Len Robinson. He had been there a long time and I remember he still called Brigadier Frink "Master Ralph", though he must have been about 65 years old!

One of the first cars in the village