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31 King Street

Worked at J P Jacksons Butchers as a messenger boy. Good old days, great town and still is.

A memory of Ulverston in 1961 by Patrick Malone

The Halcyon 1950's

I lived with my family in Connaught Gardens from being born in 1949 to late 1960 when we moved to Shiremoor. At the end of our street was an overgrown, rubble strewn wasteland which we called 'The Croft'. A natural childrens ...Read more

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Malcolm Wild

Part 7

There was no running hot water, no gas, no bathroom and no flushing toilets. Electricity was used for lighting and if you were lucky, a wireless set. Most sets were run from accumulators, a sort of battery, which you had to take to the ...Read more

A memory of Middle Rainton in 1945 by John Harvey

East Harling, Audrey Hudson

I came to E.H. in 1947 when I was 2 yrs old, and lived in Gallants Lane - opposite Fen Lane. Audrey Hudson used to organize the village children for the St John's Ambulance Brigade practice evenings, when we would ...Read more

A memory of East Harling in 1955 by Keith Wooldridge

The Bear Inn

My name used to be Marilyn Jesse and my memories of stock back in the late 60's early 70's are delightful. Since my boyfriend of the time lived next door to the Bear Inn, the pub became a bit like home from home. Many weekends were spent ...Read more

A memory of Stock in 1969 by Marilyn Jesse

Fetcham In The Forties And Fifties

This parade of shops is in my memory for ever - my family moved to Orchard Close - which starts just beside the post office on the right of the picture - in 1946. My brother was five and I was six months old. We ...Read more

A memory of Fetcham in 1950 by Christine Fox

Early Years In Park Road

Born in 1947 to Ted & Cred Fowles, I lived in 3 Park Road until 1955 when I moved down the hill to Southsea. I started Tanyfron primary school in 1951 and went on to Penygelli Secondary school, Coedpoeth, in 1958. When ...Read more

A memory of Tanyfron by Ann Evans

Licensed Game Butcher

Our gt uncle Edward Cope Statham, born in Barrow in Furness, was a licensed game butcher in Longton. He is on the 1901 census, aged 24, as lodging in Trentham Road so don't know if the shop was there too but we do have a photo ...Read more

A memory of Longton in 1900 by Ann Hale

When I Joined The Royal Air Force 22nd May 1952

I attended the Presbyterian Church Rossett Primary School in Station Road before attending the new school near Tom Bishop's shop, where I first bought my first cigarettes, Willy Woodbines, 5 for a ...Read more

A memory of Rossett in 1952 by John Griffiths

The Shops And Doctors At Sandiway 1956

We first arrived in Sandiway in 1956. I remember getting off the bus at the top of Mere Lane and walking down towards our new home in Cherry Lane. The house was a 'tied house' belonging to the ICI and our ...Read more

A memory of Sandiway in 1956 by Keith Wilson

Captions

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Caption For Fleet, The Village 1903

On the extreme left we can see Darnell's, a family butcher.

Caption For Witham, The White Hart And Newland Street C1955

Next door C H Gallant, the butcher, announces the sale of prime Canterbury lamb.

Caption For York, The Shambles C1962

The word 'shambles' comes from the Old English 'shamel', which means a slaughterhouse, so presumably this was once a street of butchers.

Caption For Ashburton, East Street 1913

The butcher's shop on the left advertises 'New Season Lamb: Easter Dainty Dish'.

Caption For Stamford, High Street 1922

The gabled Grant's butcher's shop has been removed to the Kirkgate Museum in York, Singer's has lost its elegant shopfronts and has been texture-coated, and Star Stores opposite was rebuilt in rough replica

Caption For Lymm, The Village 1897

There were travelling butchers, bakers, ironmongers, grocery stores and so on. There were also individuals who toured around selling anything from watercress and prawns to pieces of cloth.

Caption For East Grinstead, High Street 1904

On the left, outside the butcher's at Nos 74 - 76, is probably the proprietor Frederick Rogers; on the right, outside No 65 - Miss Fanny Bodle, greengrocer, fruiterer, coal and wool dealer - are the

Caption For Market Drayton, Newport Road 1898

He ran a protection racket, for example, and with his young gang of hooligans dammed a stream through the town so that it flooded the shop of a butcher who would not pay him protection money - or so the

Caption For Dartmouth, Fairfax Place C1955

Oldreive Brothers (left) were highly successful butchers, supplying the 'Britannia' and visiting ships.

Caption For Blackpool, South Shore 1901

This area had been transformed since the 1863 sandstorms when the sandhills in front of Simpson's Hotel and the cottages in Butcher's Row and Welsh's Row were replaced by these solid buildings.

Caption For Martock, The Pinnacle And Market House C1955

Built in the 1750s, Martock's Market House originally held a row of shambles or butchers' shops.

Caption For Redcar, High Street C1955

This is another section of the main shopping centre, with the Red Lion Hotel on the left, Goodswens the butcher's in the centre, close to the grocer's shop of Pybus Brothers, and Hancocks on the corner

Caption For Ledbury, High Street C1955

There used to be additional buildings - used as butchers' shops - in the central area, but these were demolished in the early 19th century.

Caption For St Annes, St Annes Road 1906

Bickerstaffe's the ironmonger's is behind the fluted lamp, and Rhodes the butcher's (with the sun blinds) is to the right.

Caption For Aldeburgh, High Street 1909

On the left a baker makes deliveries, while two girls cycle to Arthur and James Fisher's shoe shop, now Butcher's. The buildings beyond the chemists have been radically altered or demolished.

Caption For Saxmundham, 1929

The building with Dutch gables beyond the crossroads is George Reynolds, butcher; then comes The Chocolate Box, Flora Clark, grocer, Leiston Co-op, and the Bell Hotel, owned by Frank Brown.

Caption For Old Newton, The Shoulder Of Mutton C1965

The small building behind the finger post was Cooper's butcher's shop (centre left). To the right is the Victorian village hall, now a house.

Caption For Huntingdon, Delivery Van C1955

International Stores became a butcher's shop in the 1970s, and by 1983 the site was Savory & Moore, the chemists. It is now a Savers shop.

Caption For Richmond, Castle Hill 1929

Of the shops visible here, none is still in retail use except what was Walton's pork butcher's on the Market Place corner (right). Centre left is Castle Walk.

Caption For Chalfont St Giles, High Street C1955

The shop with the Daren Bread sign is still a baker's, Stratton Bakery, and A Warner beyond is still a butcher's.

Caption For Littlebourne, 1903

There were also two butchers, four grocers, a hardware store, a post office, a newsagent, a saddler, a laddermaker, shoe menders, a plumber, a builder/decorator, a forge, a blacksmith, malthouses, hop

Caption For Blaenau Ffestiniog, Church Street 1901

On the right is Owen's butcher's shop, whose hanging meat display would be a health inspector's nightmare.

Caption For Great Waltham, Chelmsford Road C1965

Next to the Post Office, Snow's the butchers were well- known for their Piggy Porker Sausages and, indeed, used to advertise them on the side of their delivery-van.

Caption For Preston, Harris Museum, Library And Art Gallery 1903

A market place and butchers' shambles had previously occupied the site, and traders continued to put up their stalls in the open space below the entrance.