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Years Gone By From 1944 To Present Time
Hi, my name is Dot Dunn (nee Harmer). I've lived in Station Town and Wingate all my life and wouldn't want to live anywhere else and am still in contact with a lot of my school friends. I can still name ...Read more
A memory of Wingate in 1950 by
Vague Memories
I remember when the pub was on the other side of the road to where the Shoulder of Mutton pub was built. I'm sure the pub changed it's name to Three Trees after a tragic incident. Where The Cutting Corner barbers is now, was a ...Read more
A memory of Bletchley
Trip To War Grave In France
It seems my family have routes in Draycott and there are several graves in the cemetery with the Barber name on them.My grandfathers cousin Frederick Barber joined the army and was killed in action on the 27th ...Read more
A memory of Draycott by
Trip To War Grave In France
It seems my family have routes in Draycott and there are several graves in the cemetery with the Barber name on them.My grandfathers cousin Frederick Barber joined the army and was killed in action on the 27th ...Read more
A memory of Draycott by
The Heights, Haircuts And Reg's
My earliest memories of the Heights are going to Sunday School and the library on King Street, along with visits to Krinks the barbers opposite Bank Lane for a "short, back and sides". I think there were 2 ...Read more
A memory of Irlams o' th' Height by
The Busses
The busses we used to go anywhere we couldn't walk. This part of the broadway looks like where the barbers was and cheap jacks where we all bought hoola hoops in the craze.
A memory of Burnt Oak by
Teresa Nolan
My mum teresa (terry) nolan woz born in 1950 she woz bought up by her grandparents in shepy road as she woz born out of wedlock to a josaphine nolan. I don't know what school she wouldve gone to as she didn't really speak of her ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham in 1950 by
Sweet Shop Trilogy.
Maggie Cook had a sweet shop at the bottom of Milton Road. She would have done well today with the Garnock Academy business but she served us well and we all have our favourite moments. Maggie was small and petite and in order ...Read more
A memory of Kilbirnie by
Stair House
I was 2 years old when my family moved to Stair House. My father was Ted Miller and was contracted by the government to collect scrap metal during the war years. We moved in 1948 but I have strong memories of the village. What ...Read more
A memory of Lamberhurst in 1946 by
Re The Barbers Shop
I was born in 1935 so I was a bit too young to remember Mr Day. However I do remember seeing a row of cutters in a rack along the mantleshelf. I lived on South Street just out of picture on the right hand side, 3 doors up from Garrets shoe shop.
A memory of Sebastopol in 1940 by
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Barley and fuel for the furnaces were brought to Stortford by water, and latterly by rail.
On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen
By this time the Vaults have disappeared to make way for the Barley Mow.
Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.
Street cleaners stand back from their wheelbarrows and a drayman delivers to the Ship Inn (right), with the Cross Keys and a striped barber`s pole being glimpsed behind.
The three shops on the right, where the barber's pole is, were demolished in the 1970s to make the entrance to Bowen Square.
Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry
Only the Barley Mow (ahead), built using the stone from the spire of St Benedict`s Church at Huntingdon, survives; it is now a bustling and busy roadhouse full of the sound of piped music and merry
East Anglia has a long tradition for growing malting barley, and Ipswich had a number of maltings.
This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley.
This 15th-century hall belonged to the merchant William Barley.
The Corn Exchange This was built to provide a covered building where corn (wheat, barley, and other cereals) could be bought and sold; its building must indicate an ever-burgeoning corn trade,
Local thatch was originally made of wheat, rye or barley straw, but now longer- lasting reed is often used.
Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.
The barber's pole which can just be made out on the left indicated a men's hairdressers.
The turrets, beyond the barber's shop, decorate the United Reformed Christ Church, which was built in 1865.
It exported copper, iron, slate, barley, bobbins, gunpowder and leather all over the Empire.
The old Barley Mow public house was based in the last building on the left.
The 16th-century premises of H F Smith are now a shop dealing in ethnic ornaments, whilst the barber's shop (see the stripy pole) now sells antiques.
The Earl of Huntingdon lived nearby, and the village gets the other half of its name from his association with barley farming.
The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.
This was originally constructed in stone in 1853 as a 250-yard-long working quayside for vessels trading in barley, linseed cake, corn, timber, salt, malt and manure, rather than for holidaymakers
The barber's pole (centre right) has also gone.
Irwin's Grocery shop is now occupied by a barber's, a ladies' hair salon and an electronics shop.
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