Launceston, Church Street c.1949
Photo ref: L20031
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WH Smith is the only business surviving on the same premises today, although with a modern shopfront and a plain blue and white sign rather than the old wrought iron one seen here. Vanstone's Dairy (next door) has undergone many changes of ownership; it became a wine bar in the 1980s, currently called Finbar Murphy's. Opposite the arches and pillars of what used to be Hayman's Pianoforte Warehouse are just visible; the premises are now a gun shop. Shuker and Reed (right), chemist and grocer, became the Bristol and West Building Society, and is now a charity shop.

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My family tree starts with Thomas and Mary Anne Newton who immigrated from England in 1830 aboard the ship 'John Craig'. Thomas occupation was a candlemaker. Their daughter Alice was my great great grandmother. Alice first married John Phillips and upon his death c1855 married a convict, Walter Wade. They had a large family and one of their daughters named Eliza married Orlando ...see more
My family roots reach back to launcestone in the 1790, 1848, 1880. My ancestors even further back all christened in that church. In 1892, my grandfather came north to work in the mines of Yorkshire at the age of twelve (the good old days).