Cheriton, High Street 1903
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Photo ref:
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This was the time of the end of the Boer War, and the man with the bicycle may well have been discussing the subject with the dog owner, right. This shopping parade still exists, but Cobley the milliner and outfitter, Gilbert the baker and the bicycle shop have been replaced with more modern outlets.
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Memories of Cheriton, High Street 1903
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I started my musical career at the Leas Cliff Hall. Worked in Murdoch's music shop at 15 yrs. I was on the beach with mother during WW1 when Tontine Street was bombed - amazing because I asked Mum to stay longer or we could have been one of the 29 casualties.
My paternal grandparents (Bert and Win Kennett) lived at 108 Cheriton High street for a long time, I don’t think my dad (Eddie Kennett) was born there, I am sure his sister Molly and brother Brian where. I have strong memories of spending Christmas’s at 108 Cheriton High Street; I think opposite was a small cafe known as Grouts tea shop. Then the barbers in the small road just off the high street between the White Lion and ...see more
From early 1920's until the late 1970's my husband's family occupied homes in Cheriton. At first in Whitby Road, then for many years at 129 Cheriton High Street, next to their good friends the Priestleys. Names associated with them were also the Horton Family, the Nokes and the Guigan/Carsons. Hubby, now sadly gone, used to fondly recall that his parents drank rarely but on fine summer Saturday ...see more
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