Lydney, c.1950

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I spent a lot of time in the early 60's waiting for red and white buses there , to take me home from school.

If I'm not mistaken this is a picture of Lydney secondary modern school , I attended there in 1962 until I was 13 . Not a very happy time for me , I was a very nervous boy and didn't fit in very well. We moved later to Yate nr Bristol. The standard of education I found out later was low and my new school put me into a lower stream.

I was interested to read that Ken Cook remembered his late father Cyril was a nurse at the above school (TS Exmouth) This school was run by the London County Council, forerunner of the Greater London Council. During hostilities, the school was evacuated to Lydney in 1943, the same year that my father Harry Hunter accepted a post with them. He, my mother and my older brother ...see more

The shop on the extreme left is Harris's Newsagency. Then J. Clifford Hughes the chemist, then The Wool Shop. The long shop (three shops really) is Williams & Cotton: bread & cakes with a very tempting shop window with cream buns, jammy doughnuts, petits fours etc. I forget what was in the second shop, but the third was a drapery. Then a laneway, behind which was a bakery (presumably belonging to W & C), ...see more