Hitchin, Churchyard c.1965
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H89065
More about this scene
At this date, Churchyard was a centre for bustling trade and commerce. Even nearly 50 years ago, the area was pedestrianised, giving shoppers safe access to Finlays the confectioners and tobacconists and Baxters the butchers. Such shops would not have been out of place when the first Frith photographs of Hitchin were taken. The post (centre left) marks the site of a set of iron gates which prevented vehicles from entering the yard during church services. The Churchyard was used as a location for the pre-war film 'Dandy Dick' starring the late Will Hay. Thirty years before this photograph, workmen altering Day's fruit shop at Nos 12 and 13 Churchyard broke into a secret room where they found a skeleton, a vat of wine and a chalice. The wine was drunk, the chalice donated to the local museum and the skeleton ... it is not recorded what happened to the skeleton!
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