Ledbury, High Street c.1955
Photo ref:
L132042
Photo ref:
L132042
More about this scene
Notice how the street widens out as it nears the old market hall. There used to be additional buildings - used as butchers' shops - in the central area, but these were demolished in the early 19th century. The large, open, market area has now been taken over by vehicles, as opposed to animals, coming to market.
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A Selection of Memories from Ledbury
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 Ledbury
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My name is Terry Hendy. I attended Suntrap school from 1956to 1961. I have very happy memories of the school and although away from home I was very well looked after and fed well. 1 saw the photo of Mr Brooks and Mr Campbell who I remember well and Mr Campbell was the cub and scout master. I was a member of both. The scout hut was the old lifeboat house on the beach. Someone mentioned a boy from Tottenham ...see more
I use to be there in 1964. My name is Jacqueline beckett then . I remember a girl next to me name ugen and a boy name michael.he was quite tall. And a small boy name lesley he had red hair .he was my mate as well .anymore out there please contact I'd love to chat with
i was born in 1932 in malmesbury rd Canning Town in a house backing on to the railway goods and shunting yards. This provoked battle between the shunting locomotive firemen and my mother drying nappies on a clothes line on the other side of a brick wall.
Our shopping was done at Rathbone street market which ment crossing Barking road via a policeman who would hold up the traffic.
The stalls and shops sold ...see more
I used to live at Catford and my parents lived across the road to me, through out the summer holidays we could get cheap train travel, so we used to go to westgate, with the children, oh oh where has that cheap travel gone. this was about 1975. And my sister used to join us as well, we found a way to keep the children occupied. Then as they got a bit older we would take them for there summer holidays camping at ...see more
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