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Historic maps of Pant and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Pant maps

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Terry Higginson

Cross Guns Hotel And Llanymynech Rock c1936
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Hi, I was the landlord at the Cross Guns for 10 years from 1976 till 1986.

Greenfields

Kynaston's Bridge 1936
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The house on the right hand side of the picture, Greenfields, is my family home. When my father laid a new oak block floor in the hall, we put a 'time capsule' in the form of a box under the new floor. It contained such articles as photographs of the family, coins and other such things of the era. He reckoned the floor would not need replacing for 100 years and so the next generation of occupants would find it when that happened.

Shropshire memories

Coopers Lane

I lived at Coopers Lane with my mother and grandparents - grandfather Bill Lewis was the lime burner for the quarry. I went to Porthywaen chapel and attended the school. Families from there were moved to Brynmelin when they were retired from the quarry. Grandad was always known as Bill the lime burner.

SAD!

Leg Street c1960
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My aunt Dylis used to have a fruit and veg shop on this street and I can remember going with my gran to the shop and helping to make wreathes for funerals.
My gran used to live in Beatrice Street, opposite the train station. I seem to remember that the access to this was via a footbridge on which I used to stand to wait for the steam trains to pass underneath. At the back of the station was the beginning of a walk which I used to do with my father. It took you to a place called Shell Bank where the land had slid away revealing a layer of shells from thousands of years ago. None of these remain anymore, how sad!

IJLB

Post Office And Main Avenue, Park Hall Camp c1960
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I was at Parkhall Camp from Aug 1970 - Aug 1972. I remember that pay day was on a Wednesday, after which the Post Office was the first port of call to get sweets and soft drinks. Every boy had a POSBIE account which 7 shillings per week was transfered into, to be spent on leave. Some of the best years of my early military career were spent at Oswestry.

Inspections

Post Office And Main Avenue, Park Hall Camp c1960
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Ref to the pay day. I remember a full room and locker inspection in the morning before Wednesday pay.

Park Hall

Post Office And Main Avenue, Park Hall Camp c1960
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I was at Park Hall Camp from March until May 1962 with 17 Training Reg R.A. I remember standing to attention on the drill square as a seventeen and a half year old boy wondering what had hit me, and the Crewe-bound train passing and the fireman or driver mocking us on parade, and Sergeant Johnson shaking his fist in return. I had some happy days at Park Hall except for when one of our number was seriously injured (I think he died) by an over eager sentry.

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