Woodford Halse Archive

Woodford Halse

File Book 001 : YR 177

Scrivens Hill

Scrivens Hill showing Banksia House on the left.

A Miss Pym lived in Banksia House in the 1890’s and became a friend of the navvies, inviting them into her house to read newspapers and magazines. She later opened a reading room for them in the village.

By kind permission of Christine Marriott

Scrivens Hill circa 1989
Scrivens Hill circa 1989