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The Old Cinema
We moved to Egham in about 1955. My father had been born in Medlake Road in 1920. We lived in Oak Avenue, Egham Hythe in a house built in the 1930s. I attended Egham Hythe Infants and Primary and later Magna Carta (on both its sites ...Read more
A memory of Egham in 1960 by
Shops
Bryant's Post Office with Mrs Robson, a Queen Motherish figure always dressed in a black two piece, dishing out pensions, stamps and postal orders from the aloof position behind her cage. Duggie Bain's cobblers, the warm oily smell, ...Read more
A memory of Howden-le-Wear by
Ye Old Tuck Shop And Mrs Price
My grandmother was Ann Elizabeth Price and lived in a beautiful house. She ran a little shop in the house and it was called YE OLD TUCK SHOPE. It is the most beautiful little village I have every seen. I remember the ...Read more
A memory of Lucton in 1962 by
Busk Crescent
Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1945 by
A Wonderful Aunt
My Aunt Emma was born Emma Blood, she had two sisters Ivy and Lily all born in Middleton by Wirksworth. Emma was born circa 1903. In the 1920s she was a domestic at what she called the 'big house at Ashbourne'. She ...Read more
A memory of Middleton by
Croydon Thornton Heath And Norbury
I was born and brought up in Croydon and although I now live in the Channel Islands I still regard it as my home. I remember living in Northborough Road, Norbury and attending Norbury Manor Infants School only ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1963 by
Dysart In The 60s
I was brought up in Dysart, first in Howard Place then the High Street, where my mum and dad still live. I remember all the shops that were there in the 1960s when I was a little girl, the little wool shop where you could buy odd ...Read more
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The Mount In The Early 1970s
I went to see 'The Jungle Book' in the Odeon and remember the restaurant opposite - dead posh. I worked in the tiny TESCO supermarket which was opposite Rossis. In the 1970s Rossis was a mecca for teenagers as ...Read more
A memory of South Harefield by
Betton A Rural Idyl
I literally stumbled upon this website and have been interested to read the memories of people who lived in Betton, a place well known to me. I lived there as a wartime evacuee in the 1940s, and Marc Chrysanthou's ...Read more
A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by
Ealing 1962 Onwards
I moved to Windsor Road in Ealing in 1962 when I was 11. I remember the Grove with fond memories. All the shops! The tailor's shop and the barbers. The sweet shop which always had a bowl of water for the dogs outside in the ...Read more
A memory of Ealing in 1962
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There is some activity around the base of the statue - are the two ladies selling flowers and button-holes?
The view looking north from the King's Head shows the National Provincial Bank on the left (now NatWest) and, opposite, the Button Shop (now the Wimborne Pottery).
It was famous for the production of button moulding, although, as in so many towns in the area, cotton was also produced here.
Beyond lie Woolworth's and the distinctively-styled Burton's building. By the church stands a statue of Robert Peel, notable because his waistcoat is buttoned the wrong way.
The lad outside the shop is wearing a sleeveless jumper, very characteristic of the period, and a more informal version of the buttoned waistcoat worn by the elderly man on the left.
A lone policeman in his high-buttoned tunic directs traffic emerging from the Ewell Road to cross the junction with Station Way, The Broadway and the High Street.
The Button Bros fascia sign on the left marks the location of the official supplier for uniforms and haircuts for the boys from Luton Grammar School.
Each boy would be required to climb the 150ft high mast from HMS 'Cordelia', and every year, cadets at the passing-out ceremony had to climb the rigging, the pride of place going to the 'button
line one side, and telegraph poles the other side of this section of the A2 from Rainham to Gillingham, where Mrs Hall had her hairdresser's shop, E H Chatfield was the confectioner and Len Button
Stockings, corsets and buttons from the old shop are on display in the museum.
Two men's outfitters existed side by side; Dunn & Co were part of a national chain selling 'gentlemanly' clothes: tweed jackets, caps and hats and sturdy gloves which fastened at the wrist with buttons
Two men's outfitters existed side by side; Dunn & Co were part of a national chain selling 'gentlemanly' clothes: tweed jackets, caps and hats and sturdy gloves which fastened at the wrist with buttons
Tuscan columns, inserted in 1812 by the Calne builder Button, replace the Norman originals.
They designed a uniform for formal occasions: frock coats, white waistcoats and fancy buttons with gilt anchors.
Until the railway came in 1842 it was an isolated rural community, best known for its fustian and for its cottage industry making silk buttons for the Macclesfield silk industry.
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