Locksbottom, The Village c.1955
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Memories of Locksbottom, the Village c1955

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On the right of the photograph the second shop belonged to Arthur Sansom, the Newsagents and Confectioners. It has a sign board above the shop front: PICTURE POST. In the Easter holidays of 1959 at the age of 14½, I took my first paid job. I became a newspaper girl in Locks Bottom, Farnborough, Kent, for Arthur Sansom the local Newsagent and Confectioner, delivering papers, journals and magazines to the ...see more