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Saltash, Fore Street c1955
Saltash, Fore Street c1955 Ref: S50009
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 Saltash, the Royal Albert Bridge from Fore Street c1955 (ref: S50010) |
Year: 1949
Early Memories Of Saltash
I lived in a two story flat, over what was Barclays Bank. Almost opposite was the Guidhall and St Nicholas and Faith Church. We had a clear view from our lounge and upper bedroom window of the road leading to the station and local police station. Immediately behind the bank property lived Mr and Mrs Hobbs with their daughters on what you might call a smallholding. Mr Hobbs worked for the council and bred rabbits and racing pigeons in his spare time. Their property was obliterated when the road bridge was constructed. My father was a Mason and used to attend meetings in the Masonic Hall which was only a matter of a few yards down the Fore Street hill on the left hand side. This also disappeared with the advent of the road bridge. I went to school in North Road for a very short while prior to going abroad with my father. A Mr Bigood was Headmaster of the Junior School in those days, I seem to recall he had also been the Lord Mayor at some stage. Next door to us was Elliot's Store and the passage lead to Mr and Mrs Hobbs' property. My wife and I still visit Saltash whenever we are in the UK. It has changed quite drastically from what I remember it to be in my childhood. Last edited: 05/06/2007 09:38 by Raymond Guy |
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 Saltash, Royal Albert Bridge 1890 (ref: 22475) |
Saltash Passage
I have my own website of old photos of Saltash Passage at http://freespace.virgin.net/derek.tait/passage.htm which I hope will bring back memories.I'm compiling a book about Saltash Passage and I'm searching for any old photos and I wondered if anyone here could help me either with pictures or memories of the area. Thanks for any help that you can give me. Best wishes, Derek Tait. derek.tait@virgin.net Posted: 04/12/2006 16:26 by Derek Tait |
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 Saltash, Mary Newman's Cottage c1955 (ref: S50013) |
Year: 1955
Life In Full Circle
The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken. We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the waterside. I also remember the house about 8 years later as a young teenager with our gang from Plymouth...over to scrump the apples and pears which were once grown on Old Ferry Road. It was just by chance that I discovered that the little house was for sale in 1992 and I have been living here since. Up until the 70s there was a gas works at the back of the house and a 3 storey warehouse at the front now both demolished...so now I have wonderful views of the River Tamar and Brunel`s Royal Albert Bridge. A couple of years age a nice old fella from London stopped to talk to me outside my house...it turned out that he once lived here in the 1920/30s, his father was in the Navy and he had then 7 brothers and sisters...all in this tiny house. Mary Newman`s Cottage was lived in until the 70s.. now it has been restored to its Elizabethan origins. Mary Newman was the first wife of Sir Francis Drake and became Mayoress of Plymouth. It is now looked after by The Tamar Protection Society. Last edited: 10/01/2007 16:24 by Steve Fuller |
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 Saltash, the Tamar Bridge c1961 (ref: S50057) |
Year: 1961
Rats, Rats And More Rats.
This photograph was obviously taken when the road bridge was nearing completion in 1961. My husband grew up nearby, and tells some gruesome stories about the plague of rats they experienced when the undergrowth was being cleared in the early days of construction. The family cat would bring home several rats each day, and local gardens were over-run with them. Worse still, they got into outhouses and sheds, under floorboards and even into houses. Posted: 28/10/2006 10:32 by Alyson Herbert |
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Saltash, Royal Albert Bridge 1890 (ref: 22475) |
Year: 1860s
Grandad's Grandads.
The white building on the far right of the photo is the Royal Albert Bridge Inn, at Saltash Passage on the Devon side on the river. A relative was born there in 1920 when his father John Augustin R. Stoneman was the landlord. Prior to that the landlord was John Watts Stoneman, father of JARS. His other grandfather was William John Bronte, who told his grandson that he had been told by his mother that she held him in her arms as a baby, standing on the bridge at the official opening in 1859. Posted: 28/10/2006 10:01 by Alyson Herbert |
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