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Oh For Thing Past.
I was born in 1941 in St Augustine's Rd at the top of Chalk Pit Ave. The memory I have are, the Bull Inn at the corner of Sandy Lane next to Nashes Paper Mills. Ridge ways ? the all one shop, {things past}. Doing paper ...Read more
A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1950 by
Farningham Homes For Boys
Hi my name is Bryan Hall, but when I was born it was Bryan Daniels. Because of my mothers persnal difficulties I was taken in by the Surrey County Council aged three months being put into council care. In 1945 I was ...Read more
A memory of South Darenth by
Happy Days
All those fond memories of Greenway School after Oak Farm in Hillingdon followed by nursing at Hillingdon Hospital. Do you remember the shop in Cross St "Bewitched" selling fancy glass and gifts? And the smashing cooked meat rolls ...Read more
A memory of Uxbridge in 1967 by
Edward Mathews
My dad worked at Mathews the iron founders, little Ernie Worsey. He was a shift worker, always dirty covered in black sand from head to foot. My dad used to cobble his own boots, and big boots they were. It was ...Read more
A memory of Bradley
Camp Road
Unless I am mistaken, this shot is pointing due south in which the trees of Lynchford Road can be seen in the distance. The distant building on the left hand corner of the "T" junction at the end of Camp Road was "Boots cash ...Read more
A memory of Farnborough by
Mill Lane
Hi Everyone i also grew up mostly on mill lane estate (woodlands ave ) and went to St Marks School (head Master Mr Thorpe) you all have jogged my memory to fantastic times around woodley. i also remember snuches ha ha played ...Read more
A memory of Woodley by
Boots Sells Salts. Salts Sells Boots
Loved the counters in Salts and the fact that I could put things "on account" My mother was born in the jewelers/pawnbrokers shop just a couple of doors away from Salts. A member of the Dinnis family which has only recently given up the unequal fight
A memory of Swadlincote in 1950
The Arkwrights
We moved to Harlow from London in 1954 when our house was brand new. We lived in The Arkwrights and when it opened I went to St Albans Primary. Later I went to Netteswell Seondary, which has now been demolished. I have so many happy ...Read more
A memory of Harlow in 1954
The Kidd's Alright
THE KIDD IS ALRIGHT The daylight had faded away and dusk was now dim enough to coax the streetlights to pop on, their vague orange light slowly getting brighter as their bulbs warmed. Meanwhile inside the Hamblett ...Read more
A memory of Moston in 1972 by
7 Springfield
I was born on the 16 of March 1959 in a council house number 2 Drovers way Burton in kendal. I Ivied there with my family. I didn't know much about that house or the village. When I was 2 and a half we moved down to 7 ...Read more
A memory of Holme by
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The shop extension filled with shoes and boots is now filled with all manner of things for pets. On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.
The three-storey building of Boots the Chemist at Nos 15 and 16 Market Place is not as old as it seems.
This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop
Boots is still here, and there is a regular market.
The shop extension filled with shoes and boots is now filled with all manner of things for pets. On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.
Frisby's is a boot store and Day and Son are general drapers. A Morris 18 (left) is parked behind an Austin 16 and PG 8782 (right) has 'GB' plates from a foreign tour.
As late as 1870, enclosure meadowland and hawthorn hedges stretched away from Wigston, but the ensuing period up to 1900 was to see a trebling of population figures as hosiers and boot and shoe manufacturers
., the Leicester Boot Company with its impressive gilded sign, and the Maypole Dairy, share its old premises.
On the left, for example, are Boots, Foster Brothers and Freeman, Hardy & Willis.
Boots were to move three times, epitomising the changing importance of different parts of the town centre.
major chain store to occupy premises in the new shopping centre, Woolworth's, was quickly followed in 1956 by the Co-operative Stores and Sainsbury's, and in the following year by Timothy Whites, Boots
Penningtons and the Scotch Wool Shop (right) are now Boots, Martins Bank beyond is now Barclays, and the Co-op (beside Fine Fare) is now Stead & Simpson's.
Penningtons and the Scotch Wool Shop (right) are now Boots, Martins Bank beyond is now Barclays, and the Co-op (beside Fine Fare) is now Stead & Simpson's.
Hundreds were employed in Paget's 'manufactory' but most people worked at home or in small frame shops. Yet the town was still under the control of the one - Hastings - family.
Boot's is on the right, where you could join their lending library, and next to it Woolworth's, where immediately inside on the left you used to be able to have a 'cuppa' and a bun.
Boots were to move three times, epitomising the changing importance of different parts of the town centre.
The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right
The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right
Family legend has it that grandfather came home with two left boots from the looting that followed the riot.
Also on the left, outside the shop to let, we can see a Stead and Simpson delivery cycle; Stead and Simpson were an early chain store selling boots and shoes, and they were here until the late 1990s.
The Blue Boot Stores has been replaced by Ingles's furniture store, and Taylors has taken over the responsibilities of Page's Forage Stores in selling pet supplies under the name of Wagger's Food Farm.
It is fitting to end on one of the most profound reasons for Luton to celebrate recently: the local football club, Luton Town FC, came top of League One and were promoted to the Championship League
No 11, selling boots and shoes, together with Lipton's teas (left), was the shop of clothier Harry Lane. No 12 was another tailor, Sidney Wellman (centre left).
Boots the Chemists' library (behind us, at the corner of Market Street) was upstairs, approached by a wooden staircase.
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