Stanstead Abbotts, High Street c.1960
Photo ref: S181021
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Apart from the more modern cars parked at the kerbs, little has changed in the village. A bus stop is visible on the right, while an assortment of hardware and ironmongery lines the pavement outside Anderson's store. On the immediate left, the tobacconist and confectioner's shop has some wall-mounted machines dispensing chewing gum and other sweets, as well as a stand advertising Lyons Maid ice cream.

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A Selection of Memories from Stanstead Abbotts

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. Here are some from Stanstead Abbotts

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Can anybody remember the name of the Baker in the High Street. I can remember him doing his weekly afternoon delivery round to our house being Wingate Cottage behind Bonningtons. I have never tasted bread as good as his ever again. Whilst on the subject of locally sourced food product :- what about E.T.Hall & Sons, the Butcher in the High ...see more
My Mum grew up and stayed in Stanstead Abbotts. We lived in a house in Thele Avenue. We often walked up Cats Hill with our Dad and played in the woods. Quite a beautiful place to grow up.
Between July 1966 and December 1970 I was one of the two policemen living in Stanstead. By the time I moved to the village, double white lines had been painted all the way up Cats Hill. I reported a number of car drivers who took a chance and overtook slow moving lorries going up the hill, sometimes narrowly avoiding a collision with a car which was approaching over the brow of the hill. It was a ...see more
myself and ray and dave blakes were standing by st andrews church when the st trian coach came by the girls were waving their hockey sticks through the window i beleive it was shown in the film