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Hitchin, the Sun Hotel c1965
Ref: H89301
Personally I don't have a memory of the Sun Hotel, but my late mother told me once that she thought her father's family either owned or ran the hotel. Their name was Taylor and they came from Hitchen and the surrounding area.
Shared on 11 May 2009
Hitchin, St Mary's Church from Market Place 1908
Ref: 60881
Our grandparents used to visit Halsey's weekly from Old Stevenage to buy their provisions. Now I with my sister visit regularly especially as we love the new owners' Kirsty and Damien's Tea Room. We take our children for 'tea' there and they think it's a real treat! Christmas simply wouldn't be Christmas without our Christmas Pudding Coffee, and Wild Boar and Black Seal Rum Pate!
Shared on 30 October 2008
Hitchin, Cars c1965
Ref: H89301X
The scene is the rear of The Sun Hotel.
Shared on 30 September 2008
Hitchin, Queen Street c1965
Ref: H89078
The road is called Queen Street and shows St Mary's Square on the left where the market was held on Tuesday and Saturday every week. Beyond that is Portmill Lane and the back of shops and offices at the top of Hermitage Road. On the immediate right is the Telephone Exchange.
Shared on 30 September 2008
Hitchin, Car c1965
Ref: H89058X
This car was parked in the Churchyard outside the provisions shop Halseys.
Shared on 30 September 2008
Hitchin, Churchyard c1965
Ref: H89065
The white-haired man in the photograph, I believe, is my father John Neville. He was a police sergeant in Hitchin from 1941 until his retirement in the late '50s.
Shared on 26 January 2008
Hitchin, Bridge Street c1955
Ref: H89012
The lady in the centre of the photograph walking towards the camera is Mrs Kate Silsby my grandmother who lived at 8 Tilehouse Street. When this was taken we think she would have been walking to St Ippollytts to visit her daughter Mrs Babs Brown.
Shared on 29 June 2006
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