St Blazey, Fore Street 1956
Photo ref:
S8024
Photo ref:
S8024
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The Palace Cinema is showing three films: Charlton Heston stars in The Private War of Major Benson, Jane Wyman in Lucy Gallant and Tony Curtis in Rawhide Years, which date this photograph to 1956 at the earliest. This is the busy A390, but a lull in the traffic has allowed the photographer to stand in the middle of the road.
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Memories of St Blazey, Fore Street 1956
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My grandad was Tom and Nan was Doris. They lived at 29 Fore Street. Grandad died in 1979. nan died 2000.grandad was a milkman and nan worked in the laundry. They had four children, Rosemary,Dereck,Peter and Margaret. Both Derek and peter died aged32. Lovely men and my mother rosemary died in 1995 aged 61. aunty Margaret is the only surviving sibling who now lives in Spain with her husband les. I have lovely ...see more
I cannot remember Fowey Radio at St Blazey but can remember the radio shop in Fore Street and that was run by Mr Osborne. He also had a workshop off The Lawn where we used to take our accumulators to be charged as most radios in war time were battery driven. I can remember Rosemary Nutt and her brother Peter at the Grammar School at Fowey and can still picture Fowey Radio almost opposite the "Town Hall" where we held our annual school plays.
My father Charlie Nutt and his colleagues ran The Fowey Radio company which gradually set up small branches in several Cornish towns, one of these was St. Blazey. I think problems with staffing etc arose as a result of the Second World War after 1939 and eventually only two Fowey Radio shops remained - one at Fowey, where I lived until I was 18, and the other at Truro. Rosemary Freeman ( nee Nutt )
Started by the Moon family; anyone know the reason for the "Aberdeen"? The steam whistle blew at 8am amd again at 5pm. They had a couple of (old fashioned then) Albion lorries. My father used to wear the old fashioned stiff white collars (collar stud front and back) which used to be sent to the laundry every week. The workers used to regularly use Turners fish and chip shop in Station Road run by Everett and Mrs ...see more
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