Bredgar, The Street c.1955
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Photo of Bredgar, The Street c.1955

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This lovely old picture of the village centre shows the Post Office and a Post Office van outside. Francis Frith and his successors seemed to take some interest in Post Offices as photographic subjects, as I am sure you will have noticed; after all, it was the village post office and stores that usually sold Frith postcards.

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I lived next door to John Veitch in Pond Farm Road, Borden. Sadly John passed away many years ago... John and his brother Sid owned Parsonage Farm. I spend as many hours as I could on the farm and can still smell the smell of the cows and in the summer the harvesting of the wheat. The tractor driver was John Luckhurst, he allowed me to ride on his tractor all the time. Health and Safety would have a fit ...see more