Extracts from Roots to Routes Newton

  We pass now to the left hand side of Top Farm into Town Lane, also recorded as Boultby’s Lane and known to some older residents as Bryan’s Lane. The aerial photo of 1965 shows in the centre three cottages in Town Lane which were demolished about 1975. An earlier photo, perhaps about 1960, shows a  Malthouse, between the 2 rows of cottages; it was demolished before 1965 and it is said that also here had been an Inn known as The Sign of the Trooper ;perhaps this indicates the presence at some time of militia being stationed nearby. An area to the west of the George and Dragon  has long been known  as Barracks Yard. Teddy Ball Both photos include the stone row which still stands, now converted to just 2 dwellings. Here Mr Teddy Ball lived and operated his Joinery, Wheelwright and Undertaker business. Having made the coffins Teddy used a 2 wheeled handcart to deliver them around the village. Residents who remember Teddy Ball tell that as a coffin maker he made his ow...