Ham, The Street c.1950
Photo ref: H352005
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Photo ref: H352005
Photo of Ham, The Street c.1950

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On the right can be seen the public house the Ham Tap, and also Mr Elson's greengrocer shop. Outside is his delivery bicycle. This village name has caused some amusement locally: a road sign indicates the distance first to Ham, then underneath to Sandwich. Naturally, at first sight the sign just reads Ham Sandwich!

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My mother and father lived in Evelyn Road - the cul-de-sac opposite the large white house in the distance - mother still there - lived in two of the houses for all her eighty years - married the boy next door (well.. at the top of the cul- de- sac!). I'm 53 and it is how I remember itn into the early 1960s - Elson the grocer on the right, the shop on the right became the Co-Op, the central shop was Frank Birch the Butcher ...see more