Jim Hutt

The range of responses received (after explaining, - "I'd like to photograph your house with you stood outside") included,

"Not today, thankyou"...........when, then?
"How much will it cost"?........nothing
"Hang on I'll get the family" etc.

However, when people were asked their surnames, I think most people thought I was from the Inland Revenue.

I knocked on one door within two hundred yards of my house, and realised it was the husband of a lady who had taught me to ride a bicycle twenty five years ago. The lady in question has become wheelchair-bound and I hadn't realised where she now lived.

On the whole taking the photographs was an enjoyable experience, and certainly got people talking. Even when I was, in my capacity as a bell ringer, showing people round the Bell Tower, a photographer asked for access to the roof to take some snaps.

I hope in years to come Jim Brown's great grandchildren will write something in the 'Faringdon Folly' newspaper about a group of photographers who recorded life in Faringdon at the turn of the century.