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Crowe Lane c.1950

Garage c.1950

Holbrows c.1870

Hop Pole Inn c.1950

Old House c.1950

Middle Stoke.c1905

Middle Stoke c.1900

Rose & Crown c.1880

Rose & Crown c.1950

Midle Stoke c.1905

View of Village c.1905

Village Hall c.1950

Vine Cottage c.1920

Waterhouse c.1880

Waterhouse c.1880

Wilkins Store c.1920

The Mill after Fire c.1950

Stoke Bridge in 1869

Mrs Patmore at the gate of her Cottage in Middle Stoke. 1906.

Vine Cottage in Middle Stoke.c.1900

The Home Guard during the 2nd World War.

from the Bath Chronicle:Somerset`s first post- woman, Mrs Lilian Lawrance, has died at her home at 249, Balbrook Lane, Batheaston. She was 87. Then Miss Patmore, from Limpley Stoke, she joined the Postal service during the First World War when women were employed on delivery work for the first time. This photograph, taken in November 1916, shows her with her dog on the old Limpley Stoke station waiting for the mail train to arrive. The figure one on her lapel denotes that she was the first postwoman in the county to be enrollled. Her daughter,.Miss Janet Lawrance, recalls, "As a postwoman she had to walk everywhere -she wasn't even allowed to use her bicycle to get f r o m her home in Limpley Stoke to Freshford where she delivered her letters." Mrs Lawrance and her , husband, William, a Limpley Stoke newsagent for many years, both sang in the church choir. Mr Law- rance was the vicar's clerk. Mrs Lawrance is survived by her daughters, Janet and Marian, son John and grandson, Simon. A service of thanksgiving is being held on Sunday afternoon at St.Mary the Virgin, Limpley Stoke,

John Lawrence and Mary Macintyre (nee` Turner), Middle Stoke, Limpley Stoke,