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My First Job
Working for Thomas Wallis seen here on the left, it was a large department store selling all household goods, from tea towels to carpets and furniture. Oh how I loved my job. In those days the shops used to shut Wednesday afternoons ...Read more
A memory of Guildford in 1964 by
Descendents Of
Our great-grandfather, Somerton grocer and corn factor George Frederick Hatcher, was born in Somerton. George and Emma Peddle married and with their two boys - great-uncle William and our grandfather Frances- they came to ...Read more
A memory of Long Sutton in 1900 by
Grandmas School House And Booths The Milkman
In 1964 my most profound memories were of staying with both my Grandparents in there home which was the old school house. George booth the local milkman had his dairy next door and every time i arrived i used ...Read more
A memory of Hale in 1964 by
Wgc Station Memories
Having left London to live in WGC in 1957, our family often went back to visit relatives so that was one of our most regular excursions. In the fifties and sixties we did not have a car and nor did many of our ...Read more
A memory of Welwyn Garden City in 1963 by
Grape Vine Inn/Ring Of Bells Albert Holley
Transcribed from the Central Somerset Gazette of 1891: 16 May 1891 - Meare - "The Friendly and Benefit Society established last 9th Sep, held its first general church parade…After the service, the men ...Read more
A memory of Meare in 1890 by
Living And Working In Great Yarmouth
Back in 1976 I moved away from home to work as a photographic salesman at Debenhams in Great Yarmouth. I also helped out at the Norwich branch. I found a 'home from home' at Pavilion Road in Gorleston with ...Read more
A memory of Great Yarmouth in 1976 by
The Burning Bing
I was born in Drongan in Ayrshire, but every holiday we had we came to stay with my Gran and Papa, Ruby and Hugh Meudell. We were always so excited to be going"home." When we got out of Kirky on the bus we were glued to the ...Read more
A memory of Queenzieburn in 1968 by
The Bank And Three Horse Shoes, Dinas Powys
My dad, Charles Davies, became the manager of this branch of the National Provincial Bank in 1965 and we moved to the village to live on the Twyncyn, off the Common in 1966. He remained there as manager ...Read more
A memory of Dinas Powis by
Happy Days
I lived at 13 Westfield Close, from 1951 until 1965 when sadly my father died and we all moved to Weston. My memories of living there are very happy. I went to Backwell C of E School and the head, I think, was Mr Branch who kept bees in ...Read more
A memory of Backwell in 1955 by
Lancaster Crash
I see that no person has placed a memory of this crash. I lived at Mountfield and this Lancaster circled the area and 4 crew bailed out each time it came round and went to what was Mr Bailey's snack bar just below Johns ...Read more
A memory of Hurst Green in 1944 by
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Timpson's Shoes were a chain store with branches all over Britain.
It was paralleled 79 years later with the opening of the Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth railway line, and its branch line from here to Bridport and West Bay.
Since then it has changed ownership twice, first becoming part of the Lewis Owen Owen group, and then in 1996 a branch of Allders.
On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.
A railway branch from Par on the main line helped develop Newquay as a holiday and bathing resort after it fully opened in 1876, and the entrance to the station terminus is up the street on the left.
In the branch of Gammons, the tailors and outfitters, Jack Phillips, who was chief wireless telegraphist on the 'Titanic', was born in 1887.
Next door at number 26 is a sub-branch of the Union Bank of Manchester, whilst further along is Ward's greengrocers and Rogers' chemist and druggist store.
The Sheffield branch of Thomas Cook & Son is dwarfed by its neighbour, Woodhouses.
The size of the Looe Hotel in Fore Street reflects the growing tourist industry, which was stimulated at Looe by a railway branch that had been connected to the main line system just seven years before
In 1959 Foster's moved to new premises in Great Square, and the building became the Braintree branch of the Midland Bank.
In 1959 Foster's moved to new premises in Great Square, and the building became the Braintree branch of the Midland Bank.
This road was cut into High Street to give access to Chesham's terminus station on the Metropolitan Railway branch opened in 1889.
'Phildelphus Jeyes' was a local business then, a branch of the chain set up by Philadelphus Jeyes of Northampton - the inventor of the disinfectant, Jeyes Fluid.
The corner shops are now a Nottingham Building Society branch.
Westmill stood near the northern end of the now-closed Buntingford Branch Railway line, and was famous for its almost forgotten Folk Museum.
Webbs had branches in ten other towns, so they could safely claim to be 'The Midland Counties Outfitter'.
The latter is a branch of Bonnetts, who were originally founded around 1804.
The branch line opened on 24 August 1903 and closed on 29 November 1965.
The cinema was demolished as part of the post-war redevelopment, and its replacement building eventually became part of Winch & Blatch.
It is now occupied by a branch of Superdrug.
Behind the Barley Mow pub in the centre of the picture, the northern and southern branches of the River Wey unite.
Half way between London and Edinburgh on the busy Great North Road, Ferrybridge was a hub, with smaller roads branching off into West Yorkshire.
On the right is a branch of the London and County Bank, with Dorset's shop next door exhibiting a gleaming display of light fittings.
A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop.
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