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Tosh And I And Easy Pickings
Tosh and I and easy pickings Hi everyone, It's me again with the continuation of my wee story. I was taken by surprise how many people liked and responded to ...Read more
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1939 Onwards I Remember
I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which ...Read more
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So Many People!
I was five years old in 1953 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the first vivid memory I have of my childhood. We lived at Midway, Cold Ash Hill, the major road through the village. Dressed as a pirate with silver buckles ...Read more
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1965
1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually ...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 ...Read more
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My American Grandmother's Travel Diary From 1951 — She Enjoyed Her Stay At The Grenville Hotel
I searched for Grenville Hotel, Bude and found this site. I was reading my grandmother’s travel diary. She visited the hotel in June of 1951 and reported: ...Read more
A memory of Bude
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 ...Read more
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Living On Reynolds Drive : 1964 To 1983
My name was Donna Francis and I lived at 106 Reynolds Drive with my mum, Diane Francis, dad Donald Francis, brother Colin and sister Tina. Our neighbours were Vera and George Monk, Ted and Helena ...Read more
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Schooldays In Dearne
It's incredible how one can recall memories from a remarkably long time ago. In fact, I still remember that on my fourth birthday, I received two identical birthday cards from different people. I can even remember the ...Read more
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Shopping Memories.
This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground. On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth. My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations. My mother's car is ...Read more
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opticians; International Stores, grocers; Freeman, Hardy & Willis, shoes; Kerry, ladies' fashions; and Lovibonds, wine merchants.
Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.
To the left of centre are Blackbourn's shoe shop and the Nat West Bank, partly hidden by trees.
Rasen Bikes are in the large shop on the left, which was E C Hall's shoe shop. The White Swan beyond is still there, and next is another shoe shop, E C Hall. A young lady is in charge.
The 1930s Shoe Inn can be seen between the post office and the thatched cottage.
The place also had a Norman earthwork castle, a motte and bailey type; in later years it was a boot and shoe making town, one of several that thrived around Northampton.
This view of the Poultry Cross and Silver Street clearly shows a sign over Olivers' shoe shop - the only shop in this street which is still there today. The County Hotel is in the background.
Union Street is littered with shop names and advertisements. On the left are signs for Frisby's Boot Stores - 'Best for Shoes, Best for All'.
The advertis- ing above the shoe shop on the left shows that some favourite products have been around for generations.
There were many shops, including drapers, hat shops, gents' outfitters, shoe shops and a number of small cafes.
The Three Horse Shoes public house on the left and the Albert Hotel on the right have been pulled down.
The photograph shows a bustling and thriving street, with Dolphin Vaults on the left; after the drapery comes Isaac's store, and then Olivers boots and shoes.
Here locals could spend their money on furniture, boots and shoes, children's clothes, and ladies' and gents' outfitting.
Again we have evidence of another future chain store - Oliver's shoes. Also, by this time photography was an increasingly popular hobby.
The buildings then became overcrowded housing for the woollen industry's factory workers, and after 1850, for shoe-factory workers.
The huge advertising signs above the grocer's and shoe shop would not be allowed today.
It included many shops - a butcher's, a grocer's, a milliner's, a shoe shop and a furniture shop. The building now awaits restoration.
The Midland Bank occupies the site of Scales' boot and shoe shop and Spencer & Co's grand frontage has fallen victim to an infestation of 'Magnet Ales' signs on behalf of the Wheat Sheaf.
No 57 Market Place was occupied by Lennard's shoe shop from 1939 (left), and before that was used by Mrs Swaffield as a tobacconists and hairdressers.
The awning next to the house belongs to the Golden Anchor clothing company, and on the other side we can see Henry Playfair's boot and shoe shop.
Locals bought their shoes at Freeman Hardy & Willis (right), we note.
Seen from the west ramp of the ford, G H Hoare, Coach Building, Shoeing & General Smith, advertises his work, while a man fishes below the island where brown trout still swim against the flow.
The village was rebuilt in brick after a disastrous fire; shops, chapels and the school all have slate roofs.
Cheaney's, on the right, is a 1930s rebuild of a shoe manufacturer established in 1886 and still in business today. Desborough's character as a workaday town is illustrated rather well here.
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