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- Neighbours Birmingham Yard - 50s - (BS0260) Left to Right: Ivy Barney, Mrs. Painting (behind), Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Field, Mrs. Foster (visitor) Over the wall are the White Hart gardens.
- Two Ladies in Birmingham Yard - (BS0276) Mrs Field on left. Mrs Painting on the right. The building was the wheelwright’s shop. He was Mr Charlie Lewendon who lived at the Farmer’s Man. The famous walnut tree is out of view to left of photo – outside the blacksmith's shop. There were two "ironers" in the yard-one outside the blacksmith's shop and one outside one of the cottages. They were used to shape the iron tyres for waggon wheels. See BS1122 below.
- Blacksmiths - 1910 - (BS0071) Top of Birmingham Yard. From the left it is Albert Charles b1873, Ernest Anderson b1883, the carpenter, & George Joseph (Joe) b1875 is shoeing the horse.
- Dr. Anne Millar - (BS1002) Photographed at Millstream in 1989.
- Ida Harkness - (BS1004C)
- Joyce Jenkins - 1922? - (BS0292) Daughter of Edith & Arthur Jenkins outside Blenheim House (now Littleworth End). 
- Joyce Jenkins- 1921 - (BS0293) Daughter of Edith & Arthurin the front garden of their home, Blenheim House, now Littleworth End 
- Arthur Jenkins - 1923 - (BS0296) In the garden of Blenheim House(now Littleworth End) 
- Edith & Joyce Jenkins - 1923 - (BS0297) Edith Jenkins(nee Cowling) with Joyce Jenkins(daughter). Location, Blenheim House, now Littleworth End, Oxford Road. 
- Freddy Parks & Stephen Lane in B'ham Yard - 1953 - (BS0298) Fredie Parks filling water from stand pipe at No 1 B'ham Yard. The only water for 2A to 4 until 1966/67. Boy is Stephen Lane 
- William Henry Dines - (BS0320) (For full details of the Dines family in Benson, see "Benson, A Century of Change", page 112)
- Woodcutters - (BS0331) Group of men with owner/foreman? May be woodcutters or gardeners 
- Mr Thomas Pether - (BS0340) Mr Thomas Pether in about 1932 seated behind an old wheel-less horse drawn carriage that had remained for a long period in the area behind the White Hart Hotel. Mr Pether lived in the house between the hotel and the Castle Farmhouse. It was called "Fairlight". It became unsafe, and was demolished in about 1934, eventually to become the site of the new house there in 2000. The carriage was moved in to his garden, and was used as a child's playhouse. (Source, Mr Alan Hewett). 
- Mr Thomas Pether - (BS0341) Mr Thomas Pether leaning on the gate of his house formerly between The White Hart Hotel and the Castle Farmhouse and called Fairlight. To his right and between his property and the Hotel was a wooden shed used as both the location of the old fire engine (see BS0052) and a morgue. All three buildings are clearly shown on BS0330. Mr Pether's son was George Pether who later became the Landlord of the "Three Horseshoes" pub between 1937 and 1952 - see "Benson A Century of Change", page 211. 
- Frank Wilder - (BS0342) Founder of Wilder's Foundry in Crowmarsh. 
- Girls on Church Tower - September 1940 (BS0381) Miss Eileen Chamberlain and Miss Mary Rowden on duty as Local Defence Volunteers, on the look out for any possible German activity. 
- Weirs - (BS0403) Self portrait by Henry Taunt, famous Victorian photographer. 
- Weirs & Sluice Gate - 1886 - (BS0404) Shows John Whiteman, the Lock Keeper, who was fond of his drink and drowned the following year. 
- Reverend Palmer - (BS0415) Presentation. 
- Molly Saunderson - (BS0631) Molly Saunderson was trained at Art School in London in the 1930s. When the war came she went into nursing, and after the war she nursed a wounded officer, as his personal nurse, until he died. It is possible that he may have left her the house in Preston Crowmarsh where she lived , with her sister Joan, and where she had her studio. As she became older they decided it would be more convenient to live in the village and they moved to the cottage on the corner of Millstream. Molly started the Benson Art Group with members of the Women's Institute, of which she was a devoted member. Later it was opened up to anyone from the village and surrounds and still flourishes today. Molly was an accomplished watercolourist, and used her drawing skills to make cards of village scenes. She died at around the age of eighty in the 1990s, and her sister, Joan, died two days later. They had a double funeral and were buried side by side in the Benson cemetery." 
- Bertie West - (BS1148) Reginald Bertie West was born in 1903 and died in 1980 beqeathing an area of land now known as "The Bertie West Field" for a playing field for the children of the village. He is pictured here at his farm (Castle Farm) at what appears to be some sort of agricultural machinary demonstration. Can anyone provide more information? 
- Group outside Parish Hall - (BS1158) 1. Judith Pennick, 2. Peter Pennick, 3. Ian Leppard, 4. Cllr Tony Crabbe, 5. Elizabeth Leppard, 6. David Belcher, 7. Don Fletcher, 8. Jean Harcourt, 9. Geoff Harcourt, 10. ?, 11. Joyce Clarke, 12. Ben Belcher, 13. John Taylor, 14. Deidre Anderson, 15. ?, 16. Helen Taylor, 17. Bert Rye, 18. Iris Chamberlain, 19. Jim Merrit, 20. Anne Millar, 21. Philip Chamberlain, 22. Enid Brighting, 23. Peter Clarke, 24. Tom Brant, 25. Peter Keeble, 26. Charlotte Bloomfield. Parish HallLeppardCrabbeBelcherFletcherHarcourtTaylorArmstrongMerritMillarChamberlainBrightingClarkeBrantKeebleBloomfield
- Men's Society, 7 Feb 1957 - (BS0289) 1. John Cherrill (Builder & Church Choir), 2. ?, 3. Arthur Jenkins (Wallingford Business Man, Chairman Benson Parish Council & Peter Clarkes Grandfather), 4. Dick Wells (Marjorie Godman's father, Builder, Church Warden and Choir), 5. Len Snuggs (Manager Slaughters Store, now Somerfields, Choir & Comedian in Village Concerts), 6. Denis Bloomfield (Church Warden, left legasy for local organisations), 7. Phil Coggins (Builder, Bell Ringer & Roke & Benson Band), 8. Jim Goodman (Bell Ringer, Church Warden & Choir), 9. ?, 10. ?, 11. ?, 12. ?, 13. ?, 14. ?, 15. ?, 16. ?, 17. ?, 18. Mr Thatcher (Chairman St Helens Mens Society & Manager Champions Store, Wallingford), 19. ? John CherrillArthur JenkinsDick WellsLen SnuggsSlaughters StoreDenis BloomfieldPhil CogginsJim GoodmanMr Thatcher
- Joyce Jenkins - (BS0295) Joyce tries her brother Maurice Jenkins motor bike outside Blenheim House, Oxford Road in the 1920's.. 
- Castle Farm (Mr West’s) - (BS0504) The area behind the farmhouse on which Horseshoe Lane is now built. The old British School and the roofs of Littleworth are visible in the background. It is thought Mr Bertie West is the person to the extreme left of the photo. Peter Clarke recalls collecting fresh milk in a jug from the farmhouse door as a child in the 1940s 
- Mrs Verry in car - (BS0507) Photographed in front of Observatory House. See page 112 of “Benson – A Century of Change” 
-Bert Passey's funeral, 1962 - (BS0519) Good shot of College Farm in the background.
