Description:Rear elevation of Hawthorns Farm, Wheaton Aston. This three-storey farmhouse was built in 1826.
Now known as the Hawthorns, from 1926 this house was the home of Albert Henry Yelland (1966-1937) his wife Alice Hole Yelland (1867-1947) and their children. Albert Henry was born at St. Issey in Cornwall and moved to Cradley in the Black Country in 1905 to take up a post as an Excise Officer for the Inland Revenue. Two years he and his family moved to Lea Road in Wolverhampton. He retired from the Inland Revenue in 1926 and for a while farmed poultry in Wheaton Aston, where he had spells as a church warden and as Chairman of the Parish Council. He was a keen and skilled amateur photographer in his spare time. After his death the Yelland family continued to live at the Hawthorns until their eldest daughter, Dorothy Alice Yelland, a school teacher, died aged 79 in 1982.
Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.