Highworth, Swindon Street c.1950
Photo ref: H157012
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Looking South The Co-op store on the left was previously a double-fronted residential property (today the windows are gone, and the shop has been taken into a new Co-op store which replaced the other adjacent buildings to its left). The outside gate to the shop is leaning against the wall to the left ready to be locked in place when the shop closes. The bus queue to Swindon is forming by the two lime trees outside Ashman's butchers shop, today a private house. Further down the street we can just see the sign for the Fishes public house.

A Selection of Memories from Highworth

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. Here are some from Highworth

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I was only two when I moved here from south London but I remember going to school there just through an alley way off the market square, and headmaster's office was a hut in the playground. Lived in Queens Avenue which were the new council houses built as my dad worked for Vickers Armstrong at the time. Wonderful happy memories, never been back since we moved when I was around 10 years old back to London. Rember crying ...see more
I live in America now. I have a family here, but I would like to return to Highworth one day. I was born there and Christened in St Michael's Church in 1954.
I am a New Zealander, as my more recent ancestors have been for more than one and a half centuries.  My ancestors had emigrated from Highworth twice during the 1800's - firstly to Australia for 9 years with the new Australian Agricultural Company in the early 1820's ...and, then back to Highworth.  In 1841 they again emmigrated, but this time permanently to NZ.  Descendant families have been in NZ ever since. ...see more