Ewell, High Street 1924
Photo ref: 75489
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Photo ref: 75489
Photo of Ewell, High Street 1924

More about this scene

This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period. A delivery van can be seen at the entrance to Church Street, with the King William the IV pub and its hanging lantern nearer to the camera. On the opposite side of the street a man carrying a suitcase passes in front of the doors of the fire station, next to the tiled butcher and fishmonger's shop run by Mr F Savage.

Memories of Ewell, High Street 1924

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I have this photograph on the wall as it reminds me of my dad, Arthur Edward Elson. He was born in Mill Lane in 1914 and worked as a 'butcher's boy' for Baldwin's which is just visible on the right of the photo. He delivered meat to customers by bicycle which is how he met my mother, she had come down from Durham and was working for Doctor Eileen Stevenson who lived at Holmfield in Cheam Road. He worked there ...see more