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Hounslow In The 80s
I was born in 1974 and grew up in Rosemary Avenue. I went to Alexandria Infants school until 1980 when I started Hounslow Heath Infants school and then junior school. My teacher at the infants school was Mrs Crump, I think there was a ...Read more
A memory of Hounslow
Sally Simcox
My mother, Sally Simcox was born in 1904 and lived with a large family of brothers and sisters in Boldon Colliery. She left school when 131/2 to work as a shop assistant for 5 shillings per week at a place called Hornes. I am ...Read more
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Low Bradley Farm
I lived in Low Bradley Farm in the late 60's early 70's with my dad Peter Dominey, Mam Dorothy Dominey and brother Christopher. I was only just over a year old when we moved onto the farm and left when I was 7. The farm was owned by a ...Read more
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Newarthill 1950/60s Tosh And I Part 2
Like everyone else growing up in Newarthill, life wasn’t easy, as times were tough in the 50s and 60s and I suppose in many ways it is today. But back then people really had nothing, but one thing I do remember - ...Read more
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Air Force Brat
My father was stationed in Lakenheath, England in 1963. My mother and 2 brothers followed 3 months later - I was 12 at the time. Coming from Texas, November in England was a shock, and it was the coldest winter they'd had in 60 years. We ...Read more
A memory of Newmarket
Happy Days
I remember being taken into youngs shop as a small child where they sold more than drapery. Upstairs there were rolls of lino and the whole shop smelled of it. Downstairs I was fascinated by the cash cups that ran up tubes to the cashier and ...Read more
A memory of Normanton
The Bike Delivery Boys
On leaving school in the early 1969's my very first job was delivering food orders from a local Co-Operative grocery shop in the Well Hall area by means of a trade bike. This was a big sturdy bicycle fitted with a huge metal basket ...Read more
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Those Were The Days
I moved to Ireland Wood from Portsmouth when I was 4 years old with my Mum and dad who was in the navy. We lived at 42 Raynel Way. The house was built by the Council. Most of the houses like ours were made of prefabricated concrete ...Read more
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Going Down The End Of The Road !
I have quite vivid memories from the late 1950's of Woodhall Parade or "The End of the Road" as those in Woodhall Crescent called it. Harry Skeeles the cockney greengrocer, always with his hat on and mostly with a fag ...Read more
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Purley Parade
We moved into the spacious four-bedroomed maisonette over Purley Radio in Purley Parade in 1955 and I attended Christ Church primary school, just over the other side of High Street (sadly demolished in 1967). A policeman used to see us ...Read more
A memory of Purley
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The baker's shop (extreme right) has gone, and is now called The Old Bakehouse, whilst the end portion has become a hairdresser's shop with windows inserted at ground and first floor level.
Fields Antique Shop passed into memory in the early '80s and a new retailing form took its place - the Eight until Late shop, this being its latest incarnation.
On the right, Parkinson's shop is a typical grocer's shop in the old style, selling everything from tea to motor tours.
From the early days of caravan parks, it soon became apparent that visitors wanted the sites to become 'one stop shops' incorporating shopping and entertainment.
The arcade was the Victorian equivalent of a shopping mall, offering undercover shopping and retail outlets on two levels. In 1899 the arcade even had a bioscope parlour.
Next to it stands the newsagent's and tobacconist's shop of the Robinson family, who for two generations served the town and, indeed, had their own blend of snuff.
At about the same time many of the local shops were transformed into cafes and gift shops to cater for this new clientele.
A child's paradise in the 1960s, this shop still stands just over the crossroads on the Huntingdon Road out of St Neots.
The next four smaller shops are Dewhurst's, Meeson's, Annette's and the Singer Shop. The next large shop front covering two buildings is Pretty's the Drapers, which was here since the 1890s.
E J and D Cartwright's newsagent's and tobacconist's shop is the building with the sun blinds, whilst further along Garner's baker's shop (fresh Hovis and pies daily) was doing some good trade; but little
The High Street today looks much the same as it did in the 1950s - except that like so many small towns, the shops have gone.
Poore's Victorian brewery office became Handel House around 1920, with a wide altered shop-front sellling pianos, followed soon after by A B Scott's shoe shop.
The 1950s were the last profitable heyday of the small and diverse local shop, before the supermarkets changed British shopping habits for ever.
There can't be many village shops that can claim to have been trading for more than 200 years. The timber building on the left can make just that claim.
To the right is Harry Nunn's hardware shop, which closed in c1980. David Collins was the owner of the Post Office Stores and chemist's shop(centre right).
Following the closure of the post office and stores in March 2003, a community shop and post office opened in the barn of the Swan in December 2003.The single-decker bus is approaching another now
The shops on the left have now made way for more modern blocks of shops and offices.
An office block has replaced those quaint shops, but the Duke of York survives, now minus its covered porch, at the junction with the Frimley Road.
Hilton's shop is still a boot and shoe shop, but Mr O'Connor is the owner.
On the left is a terrace of brick houses and shops built c1865. Barclay's Bank closed in 2000, but the Co-op still trades from the ground floor, although it now has a mid-1990s shop front.
There were a whole range of shops along the Broadway, ranging from a chemist's, a sweet shop, a gentlemen's outfitter's, a garage, a bank and the gas showroom, but competition was to follow from
Here we see a sedate shopping scene. The shop fronts are alluring, but not brash.
A depressing series of small-scale shops line the main road, which is soon to sweep in more peaceful mode under Bardon Hill.
When the bicycle shop, just past the memorial (left), closed in the 1960s Frank Croach, the butcher, moved in. Although he died in 1990, there is still a butcher's shop here.
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