Looking back at Isle of Axholme in bygone days with Colin Ella

We have here a Doncaster Rotophoto Co.Limited post card of the 1920s.

On the left is the George and Dragon Inn.

At one time there used to be two houses past it but these were long since pulled down.

The war memorial is sited near the corner.

On the right Chafor’s Hardware business was followed by a cycle shop and Evison’s crockery shop.

The Co-operative Society’s shop came before the entrance to Chancery Lane.

Church Street leads off left in front of the large house known as ‘The Hall’ left centre.

An old post card marked 1918 looking down Church Street to High Street and Chancery Lane.

The writer, Dot, comments,‘Having a ripping time , weather glorious, has the jam or currants arrived yet?’

The vicarage is on the right.

A Mrs. Fretwell once lived in the house first left, and the Pidds in the third.

Potts and Brunyee’s business was in the white building furthest streets.

There is an Edwardian air about the old post card looking down Church Street from Crowle’s High Street. Is the banjo player entertaining a wedding party further down the street?

Perhaps they have just left St. Oswald’s church whose pinnacles can be seen.

The Hall, first right, can perhaps qualify as Crowle’s finest family house.

It was sold to a Mr. White in 1946 for £936.

Later it belonged to the Brunyees, a long standing family.

The post card of Crowle Market place was sent from Crowle to Leeds in 1908.

The boys are operating the old market place pump.

The elephant, centre back, may have been from the circus. Circuses were held in Webster’s yard , and the anmals were watered at the market place pump and also at the pump in Cross Hill. The Crowle ‘statis’, as the November hiring fairs were called, when lads and lasses offered themselves for work at local businesses and farms, were still held in the market place as late as the 1930s.