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Penrith, Middlesgate c.1955
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From 1670 until 1971 children were taught in Robinson's School, now Penrith Museum, the lowest building on Middlegate's right side. Behind it flows Thacka Beck. Newton's brewery formerly stood adjacent, but by 1911 it had been replaced by the Alhambra entertainment hall, now a cinema. In the 1930s Middlegate experienced a revolution in retailing with the arrival of the chainstores. Burtons and Woolworths altered the streetscape with their respective Art-Deco and stuccoed cost-cutting neo-Georgian designs.

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Memories of Penrith, Middlesgate c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Penrith, Middlesgate c.1955

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When I was at the Grammar School, I used to do my mothers shopping on this street; I bought my first pair of earrings from Woolworths, on the mid-left, for a shilling - 5p!! and my mum bought shoes from the shop near left. My French form teacher, Mr Paul Johnson and his wife and twin daughters lived in a flat on the left; he was a navigator on Wellingtom bombers during the war. Also on the left, just out of the ...see more
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