The Dr. Findlay Slides

A Late 19th to Early 20th Century Photographic Record Of Brailes

With Thanks & gratitude To Everyone Who Helped Preserve These Slides

Dr. George Findlay was one of the first full-time professional doctors to live in the village. One of his passions was at that point the developing technology and art of photography. Luckily for future generations he took a lot of photos, which at the time were captured not on film but in glass slides.

Some of those slides were lost over time but most of them were preserved and handed down through custodians who lived in the village, most recently Bob Crook and his son and daughter Peter and Anita, and then digital copies passed onto Stuart Cummings, who has kindly provided for them to be uploaded for all the village to enjoy. These photos were largely taken in the late 1800s and early 1900s with a few from outside Brailes too. If anyone has any further information about Dr. Findlay and his family we would love to know!

Dr Findlay’s Photo Slides

  • Box 1 (1)
    St. Ronan’s Lea – The home of Dr.Findlay
  • Box 1 (2)
    Dr. George Findlay, Brailes village physician and amateur photographer
  • Box 1 (3)
    The Reverend Garrard (brother-in-law to Dr. Findlay)
  • Box 1 (4)
    Geoffrey, son of Rev. Garrard
  • Box 1 (5)
    Reverend Smith, Vicar of Brailes, 1902
  • Box 1 (6)
    Rev. Smith and Mrs Smith
  • Box 1 (7)
    Reverend Smith and his five daughters
  • Box 1 (8)
    Rev. Smith’s daughters, from left to right: Maude, Stella, Hattie, Dorritt, and Sophie
  • Box 1 (9)
    Maude Smith on a bicycle
  • Box 1 (10)
    Maude and her horse Dodo in 1900
  • Box 1 (11)
    Hattie Smith
  • Box 1 (12)
    Dorritt Smith dressed as a Romany
  • Box 1 (13)
    Maude Smith clowning for the camera
  • Box 1 (14)
    George William Marshall Findlay (1893~1952), son of Dr. Findlay, aged 1 years old, in 1894
  • Box 1 (15)
    Mrs. Fox and Marshall Findlay
  • Box 1 (16)
    Marshall Findlay and a donkey
  • Box 1 (17)
    Marshall Findlay fishing on Sutton Brook
  • Box 1 (18)
    Marshall Findlay in school
  • Box 1 (19)
    Marshall Findlay aged 11 years old in 1904
  • Box 1 (20)
    Aunt and Findlay children
  • Box 1 (21)
    Kennedy family at a picnic with the Findlay and Garrard families
  • Box 1 (22)
    Compton Wynates
  • Box 1 (23)
    A carriage leaving Compton Wynates
  • Box 1 (24)
    George Findlay with his dogs Ginger and Ron
  • Box 1 (25)
    Dr. Findlay’s dogs, Ginger and Ron, dressed as clowns, in 1906
  • Box 1 (26)
    Dr. Findlay’s dogs, Ginger and Ron, in bonnets
  • Box 1 (27)
    A new litter of puppies in a basket
  • Box 1 (28)
    A Christmas greeting card from the Dr. featuring his dogs, Ginger and Ron
  • Box 1 A (1)
    Dr. Findlay’s experiment in creative photography
  • Box 1 A (2)
    The Ghost
  • Box 1 A (3)
    A face by candlelight
  • Box 1 A (4)
    Fred’s double
  • Box 1 A (5)
    Maude’s double
  • Box 1 A (6)
    Walking to church, the entrance of St. George’s.
  • Box 1 A (7)
    Rev. Garrard 1904
  • Box 1 A (8)
    Interior of St. George’s
  • Box 1 A (9)
    Altar of St. George’s
  • Box 1 A (10)
    St. George’s from across the fields
  • Box 1 A (11)
    A five man team gathers hay near St. George’s
  • Box 1 A (12)
    Brailes in the deep mid-winter, a view of St. George’s from Grove End
  • Box 1 A (13)
    A view of Brailes across to St. George’s, looking from Sutton Lane, where Jeff’s Close now stands
  • Box 1 A (14)
    A view of St. George’s from the field behind Rectory Farm
  • Box 1 A (15)
    Brailes’ magnificent elms form a natural arch over the Banbury road, a view of St. George’s from the Lower Green
  • Box 1 A (16)
    A view of St. George’s from the Park
  • Box 1 A (17)
    The entrance to Lower Brailes from the bottom of Holloway Hill
  • Box 1 A (18)
    Cattle grazing next to a large tree
  • Box 1 A (19)
    Cattle resting, a large tree, and Saltway Lane in the background
  • Box 1 A (20)
  • Box 1 A (21)
    Cattle grazing on the Park
  • Box 1 A (22)
    Old Brailes Pond, Green End Farm area
  • Box 1 A (23)
    The Park and Saltway Lane
  • Box 1 A (24)
    Lower Brailes, Lower Green, opposite the wheelwrights
  • Box 1 A (25)
    The Saddlers, a thatch cottage
  • Box 1 A (26)
    The old Brailes Post Office on the high street
  • Box 1 A (27)
    The original Mint Row (aka Lollipop Row)
  • Box 1 A (28)
    Methodist Chapel on the Upper Green
  • Box 1 A (29)
    Grocery store next to the Gate inn
  • Box 1 A (30)
    The Gate inn with proprietors and family
  • Box 2 (1)
    Trees enclosed by a dry-stone wall in front of St. George’s
  • Box 2 (2)
    Winderton with a view of Hyde’s Cottage foreground
  • Box 2 (3)
    Castle Hill (yes it was covered in trees)
  • Box 2 (4)
    Sheep with Castle Hill in the background
  • Box 2 (5)
    Sheep relaxing by the pond
  • Box 2 (6)
    Sheep rest under the trees
  • Box 2 (7)
    Sheep relax under the willow trees
  • Box 2 (8)
    Washbrook, Sutton
  • Box 2 (9)
    Brailes House in snow
  • Box 2 (10)
    Marshall and Mrs. Fox play in the snow
  • Box 2 (11)
    The family donkey waiting for his supper!
  • Box 2 (12)
    Trees in snow
  • Box 2 (13)
    Flooding of Henbrook lane in May 1902
  • Box 2 (14)
    Hounds meet from the field next to the Police Station
  • Box 2 (15)
    Hounds and a mounted bloodsport enthusiast
  • Box 2 (16)
    A full meeting of mounted bloodsport enthusiasts with their hounds on the Brailes House driveway
  • Box 2 (17)
    Hounds and trailing mounted bloodsport enthusiasts in the High Street
  • Box 2 (18)
    The hunt proceeds in Upper Brailes (note Lower Brailes ended, and Upper Brailes began, at the entrance to what is now Orchard’s Close)
  • Box 2 (19)
    ‘Lord’ Willoughby (top hat) with fellow mounted bloodsport enthusiast chatting whilst hounds wait command
  • Box 2 (20)
    Mounted bloodsport enthusiasts corralling and inspecting heir hounds
  • Box 2 (21)
    ‘Lord’ Willoughby, hounds, and (motor?) carriage meeting near Henbrook Lane
  • Box 2 (22)
    ‘Lord’ Willoughby in top hat far left meeting the hounds on Castle Hill Lane
  • Box 2 (23)
    A fox (not sure if alive or stuffed and positioned)
  • Box 2 A (1)
    The Institute and the bakery in front of it
  • Box 2 A (2)
    St. George’s from behind the Police Station
  • Box 2 A (3)
    High Street, Elliott’s Store
  • Box 2 A (4)
    Millers at work
  • Box 2 A (5)
    Millers scything
  • Box 2 A (6)
    Working the cider press
  • Box 2 A (7)
    Frank and Percy, the Taylor Brothers
  • Box 2 A (8)
    The Old Forge and the Post Office, owned by Joanna Humphrey Webb, in 1902
  • Box 2 A (9)
    Blacksmith
  • Box 2 A (10)
    Children play near the Fountain, Upper Brailes
  • Box 2 A (11)
    Children come out to see the trial run of the steam Omnibus in 1902
  • Box 2 A (12)
    The steam omnibus, the first non-horse powered carriage for transporting the people of Brailes to Shipston and Stratford
  • Box 2 A (13)
    Post card image of the steam omnibus, the first non-horse powered carriage for transporting the people of Brailes to Shipston and Stratford
  • Box 2 A (14)
    Ladies in Jeff’s Close, at the bottom of Stocksturry Hill, and the start of Lower Brailes
  • Box 2 A (15)
    May Day 1906
  • Box 2 A (16)-1
    May Day 1906
  • Box 2 A (17)
    May Day 1906 behind Will Miller’s House
  • Box 2 A (18)
    May Day 1906, Brailes School students prepare
  • Box 2 A (19)
    May Day 1906 girls race
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    May Day 1906 girls egg & spoon race
  • Box 2 A (21)
    May Day 1906 boys high jump competition
  • Box 2 A (22)
    May Day 1906 hurdle competition
  • Box 2 A (23)
    May Day 1906 Brailes Brass Band marching to Church
  • Box 2 A (24)
    May Day 1906 mop tournament
  • Box 2 A (25)
    Coronation race
  • Box 2 A (26)
    Judges at the Coronation race
  • Box 2 A (27)
    Spectators at the Coronation race
  • Box 2 A (28)
    Spectators at the Coronation race
  • Box 2 A (29)
    Edge Hill Motor Trials
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    Edge Hill Motor Trials
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    Edge Hill Motor Trials
  • Box 2 A (32)
    Edge Hill Motor Trials
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    Edge Hill Motor Trials
  • Box 2 A (34)
    Edge Hill Motor Trials
  • Box 2 A (35)
    Banbury Cross 1905
  • Box 2 A (36)
    Banbury Station 1905