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The Morning Star Public House

A Memory of Swanscombe.

In 1940, during the Second World War, my great-grandmother Eva Ethel Cherry was killed in the bombing of the Morning Star public house in Swanscombe.

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My wifes grandad was also killed in the morning starr surname of milton?
By richardhaddon9133 on Wed May 27th 2015, at 4:44 pm
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Does anyone recall the lovely sweetshop at the top of Church Street where a lady we all called Aunt Nellie served in the shop and their house was next door. We lived opposite in l42 Church Street. I went to Sunday School at the parish church and the Vicar always told us the story of how Swanscombe people even turned back William the Conqueror. We used to play for hours in the woods and helped our mothers during the Summer in all the many fruit fields in the area now long gone sadly.
By nita_luce on Tue Jan 31st 2017, at 4:27 pm
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Having just joined the Francis Frith site I have just read the comments on the bombing of the Morning Star Public House in Church Road Swanscombe my Great Aunt Alice Cheal was in the pub at the time of the bombing and was a survivor with multiple injuries to her legs resulting in her having to wear Irons on her legs for the remainder of her life.
On the question of the sweet shop in Church Road, I do remember this well as we used to call into the shop after school once a week for twopence worth sweets served in a paper bag. I may be wrong here but I believe the name of the shop was Watson.
By David Cheal on Wed May 3rd 2023, at 5:27 pm
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