Shillingstone, Post Office And Main Road c.1955
Photo ref:
S443004
Photo ref:
S443004
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In Norman times this was 'Schelling's Town', for the parish belonged to the Eschelling family. The building on the left is Dean's Central Stores --a modern retail outlet for a Dorset village of half a century ago.
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Memories of Shillingstone, Post Office and Main Road c1955
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Shillingstone, Post Office And Main Road c.1955
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I have always been interested in trains, and Shillingstone Station gives me some great memories. I did not enjoy the best of health when I was young so spent a lot of my childhood down at the station, even on days when my asthma was bad, in the summer months when the line was busy I would take an old camp bed down and sleep in the signal box. When the last down train to Bournemouth had gone at 9.30 the ...see more
My parents ran the Central Stores from 1951 to 1955, their names were Tony and Eunice Jeanes. The date of c1955 is about right as this was the year that my father and mother sold the business to Mr Dean, whose sign appears in the photograph. I was two years old when my parents took over the business and my earliest childhood memories are of life in this Dorset village. It was from these premises that at the ...see more
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