Oakham, The Old Pump And Buttercross 1927
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More about this scene
Until 1880 this area was the butchers' shambles, then replaced by the pump (in the shelter, foreground). There are milk churns on the cart outside F W Hart 'Family Grocer, Tea and Provision Merchant'. Note the errand boy's bike propped up against the gas light. There is a motorbike and sidecar up in the corner near the Butter Cross. Could it be the one bought for the police station in 1926? A boarding house of Oakham School is behind the pump surrounded by railings.
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