Several generations of the Fry family were tenant farmers in the local area. The photograph from 1893 shows three Fry brothers sitting outside Sutton Lane Farm, where John Fry (aged 42) was the farmer. His older brother Jacob (aged 49) was at Stanley Farm, near Bremhill. Other brothers were at Avon Farm and at Bradenstoke Farm.
Sutton Lane farmhouse is about 200 years old, and is almost identical to the Church Farm farmhouse.
The pair of houses on Sutton Lane, to the south of Sutton Lane Farmhouse were built in the late 1870s as part of a government scheme (known as the Improvement of Lands Act, 1864) to try to improve conditions for farm workers.