Wickford, High Street c.1955
Photo ref:
W195001
Photo ref:
W195001
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Pardey & Johnson traded from the gabled building on the left. Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture. The in-store café can be seen to the extreme left. The pub sign a few doors along marks the position of the White Swan.
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Memories of Wickford, High Street c1955
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I remember going to the Gospel Hall to Mr & Mrs Potts and family every Sunday afternoon from Woolshots. We used to have magic lantern shows and sometimes if we were good we got tea and bread and jam. I think we were sent to get out of Mum & Dad's hair for a while. Dad used to work in the greengrocers on the corner. Happy days, even my kids have happy memories of trips to Wickford when they were young before we left in 1980.
I lived in Wickford until 1963. My sisters and I would walk down London Road to the high street, first stopping at the little sweet shop and then looking into the windows of Prentice. I got my first 2 wheeler there in 1954. We would go the pictures in what later became Woolworths, the site of my first Saturday job. The Coop was in the high street and was the busiest shop. My dad had Barclays account number 2.
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