Kettering, High Street c.1955
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K13044
More about this scene
Almost everything in this view has been swept away. Bell & Billows were a remarkable ironmongers in a handsome late Victorian building. The wisteria-covered building on the left going up the hill was the Old Grammar School with the Crown Inn next door. The Odeon was to be demolished in 1974, when shops would be built on the site. In the row of late Georgian shops on the right, two new shop-fronts, Norvic and Sketchley, flank Roberts & Sons, a high-class grocer where loose tea was kept in black and gold canisters and a smell of roasting coffee crept into the outside air. Sketchley were on the site of the first Co-op in the town - it had opened in 1866.
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