Chapelfields Farm, Olton

Chapelfields Farm, Olton (drawn 1934)

The original of this drawing is missing.

The farmhouse was pulled down in 1956 so even you won't remember it Tim but perhaps
you can recall snippits of conversation about the old place and who used to live
there before the occurences that eventually led to its demolition.

I understand that children did play in the what was left of the ruins but not as
much as one might have expected - there was something eerie about the place - a
coldness about the place that wouldn't lift on even the sunniest of days. Did you
play there?

There are some more drawings of the old place done by W.A.Green who sadly died in
1983 you can find them here:
Chapelfields(1)
Chapelfields(2)
Chapelfields(3)
Chapelfields(4)
Chapelfields(5)

Sometimes the only thing to do with a place is to pull it down like 25 Cromwell
Street in Gloucester - the former home of Fred and Rose West - but perhaps things
are left behind in the old foundations the rocks the very geography of a place -
traces of what happened there still sometimes felt sometimes seen by certain
individuals.

Paul