Walnut Cottage, 102 High Street

1910-11. No 102 on left amongst the trees.

(Stocker)

About 1920s Willers Yard alongside Walnut cottage No 102 High St

(Deacon)

1994. No 102 showing where Willers' Yard was previously.

(Deacon)

2014. No 102 on the left with No 100 on the right.

(Griffin)

In 1870 Frederick Willers (Born about 1848) – opens in new window – and family were living in Walnut Cottage and in that year Frederick started the family wheelwrights/carpenters/joiners/coffin maker business, working from a yard at the side of that cottage until the late 1940s. As the supplier of coffins to the Village, they also “provided” funerals.

Frederick George Willers (born 1914, son of George Thomas Willers) built Riverview, 10 Haslingfield Road – opens in new window – and in about 1954 the family and  the business  moved to there from Walnut Cottage

In the photograph showing the horse, it is thought that the bearded man in the background is  Frederick Willers, the boy on the horse is  Frederick George Willers, whilst George Thomas Willers is holding the horse’s head and the little girl is Edna (Nellie) Willers (Enlarge the photo to see all the frame)