Hitchin, The Market 1901
Photo ref:
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Photo ref:
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The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century. The cupola of the 1851 Corn Exchange rises above the collection of stalls and the surrounding Georgian facades. The flint-faced post office is on the right. Note the lone policeman keeping a watchful eye on events in the right foreground.
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In the sixties Hitchin market was a "proper" market where local traders brought their produce and goods, all assembled and displayed on trestle tables in the open area alongside the duck stream and church. There were many regular traders who sold their goods each market weekday with their cry's of Three fer-a-pand" and "Over ere madam " for your quality towels and bedding from "Jonnie" a favourite with the ladies. ...see more
The gentleman in the white printer's apron walking towards the camera behind the group of three men on the right hand side of the picture is my grandfather James Cannon (1878-1922). He worked in Hitchin at the printers, Paternoster and Hales, as a compositor.
I am trying to trace the two sisters from Arlesey who were at the Girls Grammar School during the period 1942-1949, their names were Patricia and Freda Davies. Does anyone have news of them?
I would like a photo of St Mary's School (C of E) Churchyard ,Hitchin, Hertfordshire where I spent my childhood. I know it was pulled down in around 1970.
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Effie Lewis
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