Market Harborough, The Ritz, Northampton Road c.1955
Photo ref: M33020
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Photo ref: M33020
Photo of Market Harborough, The Ritz, Northampton Road c.1955

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Television was still in its infancy when 'Prince of Thieves' was entertaining local people here at The Ritz. The cinema finally closed its doors, only to be re-opened in its new role as a supermarket.

A Selection of Memories from Market Harborough

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1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually remarried to a fantastic man who took on a single mother with two young children and a dream to do something better with his and therefore our lives, He was a test driver for Joseph Lucas and ...see more
There are enough clues to suggest that the fair-haired boy on the left of the photograph is me. My mother, brother and myself are walking home to School Lane which is at the top of the Talbot yard (the pub on the left hand side that they are nearing).