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Year: 1940s Worksop Baths
Saturday mornings we would trip off to Worksop on Booth @ Fisher bus from Kiveton Park with a suitcase. Call at Davis shop on Bridge St just through the lights at Newcastle Ave. Pack eight loaves of bread in the case trip off to Ryton St to a little shop where we could leave our case, then off to Worksop open air baths. It was a little chilly at times but great fun. After about two hours collect our case and off home. Those were the days.

Posted: 16/07/2008 22:00 by Dorothy Sankey

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Worksop, the Swimming Pool c1955 (ref: W278026)

Year: 1965 swimming
I remember swimming in Worksop Lido almost everyday during the summer - or so it seemed. We swam in the early morning before school, we swam '5 'til 6' after school (cost 4d) and sometimes on a Saturday morning for two hours for even less. It must have been cold but we didn't notice. The only time that we did notice was when we went from school on Monday mornings at about 9.30 - then it was very cold.

Last edited: 13/02/2008 09:17 by First Name Last Name

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Worksop, Priory Church c1955 (ref: W278053)

Year: 1959 Priory Church
This view has hardly changed, I have recently took a photo from about the same place and it is almost the same. The wall running in front of the church as gone now but the park on the left and the school wall on the right is still intact. There are more road signs on the corner. I remember going round this corner on my bike when I was about ten and being stopped by a policeman and told off for not signalling. I remember shaking with fear because a policeman told me off. Oh how things have changed.

Last edited: 05/03/2007 03:24 by Barbara Whiteman

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Worksop, Bridge Street 1967 (ref: w278093)

Year: 1967 Family
The man walking behind the two ladies and carrying what looks like a picnic hamper is I think, my father - Dennis Davis. Farther back in the picture are two women, one pushing a pushchair and a child running in front, this may be my grandmother, mother, baby sister and myself. I would love to be able to zoom in on this picture.

Last edited: 27/02/2007 10:45 by Jill Dowson

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Worksop, Bridge Street 1967 (ref: w278093)

Year: 1971 Matthews Opticians
To the left of this photo, the first shop you can see was Reg Matthews opticians. You can just make out the entrance and the window above which is a V shape. As a trainee dispensing optician working there around 1971, I used to sit at this window and look down on Bridge St. Happy memories. The business was later taken over by G. Gilbert (who'd previously been a partner) and he's still there today to the best of my knowledge.
Deville's chemist was the shop next door - the one with the canopy blind.

Last edited: 30/07/2006 17:46 by Sue Houghton

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Worksop, Bridge Street 1967 (ref: w278093)

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This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground. On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth. My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations. My mother's car is parked on the road just behind her. The shop to the side is Perham Cox, which was a family grocer, which also delivered groceries to our house on a weekly basis. The other lady is Mrs Jean Salmon who was also married to a local farmer. The way shopping was done in those days involved parking at the top of Bridge Street and moving the car down the hill as each shop was visited. This is now a pedestrian area. The only shiop I can see to be relatively unchanged is Hardy's which has changed hands but still sells glass, china and fancy goods. At ths time most of the shops in Bridge Street would be family owned and run - there was Deville's chemist, Perham Cox grocery, Atherton's shoe shop and Skinner and Rook wine merchants (where we could buy sherry from a barrel decanted into our own bottle).

Last edited: 11/05/2006 11:33 by Mrs H Levack

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