Burnham, High Street c.1968
Photo ref: B250103
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Photo of Burnham, High Street c.1968

A Selection of Memories from Burnham

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Burnham

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I may be wrong but the entrance on the right looks like the entrance into the Doctor’s Surgery. My Doctor was Doctor Summers, an elderly gentleman (well to me). I can remember him once telling my Mum that Australia needed young people like me ( I think I was 8 or 9 at the time) and wouldn’t it be a good idea to send me! I like to think he was joking but who knows.
I moved to Burnham from a town on the Kent coast where, if you hadn't been to school there you were not worth accepting. The first time I shopped in the village in Burnham a woman spoke to me as I looked in he meat cabinet in Halls, I took no notice not realising she was talking to me. No one had ever spoken to me in a shop before! When I sat at the bus stop by the green another woman spoke to me! I was flabbergasted. ...see more
Does anyone remember the little black taxi-cab and driver? I know that he lived in Windsor Lane and I can remember him bringing my Mum home from hospital in early 1948. I know there was another car used as a taxi driven by a Miss Williams.
I worked here in the middle 40s it was owned by Mr Black?