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CHELMSFORD, TINDAL STREET, 1919

Tindal Street 1919
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This shows the view looking up Tindal Street from the London Road end. In the centre of the photo you can see a sign sticking out. This you can just make out is the Spotted Dog public house which was there until that side of the road was developed. Just beyond the cars you can make out a large building on the left, this is the one shot where you can see the Corn Exchange. This as mentioned previously was the site during the 1960s where many famous artists appeared at the Saturday Scene, counting Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, The Yardbirds, Pink Floyd and the famed Jimi Hendrix. Who said we missed out on anything? For ten shillings you got a night of escapement and entertainment with just a few hundred people. Nowadays you have to go to Hylands and join tens of thousands of people at the V Festival. We got to see our idols really close up, and with a chance they would also be enjoying the nearby public houses' best ales. Would you call that a wasted youth? To many of us they were really fabulous days, the like of which you haven't much chance of ever seeing again, so close and personal.

Written by John Crouch. To send John Crouch a private message, click here.

A memory of Chelmsford in Essex shared on Sunday, 10th April 2011.

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