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First Record Player
Grey's Electrical Shop - That's where I bought my first Dansette Record Player in about 1959.
A memory of Welling in 1959 by
Redhill Pool Hair Spray And Teddy Boys
I remember the pool at Redhill and the cardboard boxes for our clothes. Oddly I was only thinking of it last week when I was locking my clothes up at the gym, I was wondering how they tracked our clothes when ...Read more
A memory of Redhill by
Monton Eccles
I was born in Monton, lived in Monton during my childhood and moved to Eccles. I went to Eccles Parish School which at the time was run by nuns. They taught us pretty well and watched over us even when we washed our hands, and if anyone ...Read more
A memory of Eccles in 1973 by
Holidays And Work For My Dad
Our family used to have our holidays (from Birmingham) in Llwyngwril and my dad tuned pianos in the village during our stay. We used to stay over a village shop and the lady owner would present my brother and I with a ...Read more
A memory of Llwyngwril in 1947 by
Personal Recollections
From age 11 to 16 I lived in Station Town from 1950 to 1955, at 2 Rodridge Street,( now thankfully the street has been demolished). When I saw the old photograph of the Main Street it was mostly as I remembered it. Booth's the ...Read more
A memory of Wingate by
Park Street , Bristol Bs1
My, how Bristol's once prestigious Park Street has changed. The picture from a hundred years ago shows just what a graceful place it was to shop in those Edwardian days of long ago. Strolling up, on the left, one could visit ...Read more
A memory of Bristol by
Greengrocers 1899 1934 East Street: Mark & Annie Crouch
My Great Grandfather Mark Crouch ran a greengrocers shop from the front room of his thatched cottage in East Street from 1899-1934 and then after he died his wife Annie continued as a ...Read more
A memory of Westbourne in 1890 by
My Childhood In Houghton Regis.
My name is Daniel (Danny) Cronin, the youngest of 5 and the only boy of Harry 'H' and Ann Cronin. My life began on the 27th of November 1970. My first place of residence was Recreation Road where I have broken ...Read more
A memory of Houghton Regis in 1970 by
Very Early Memories!
I was born in Chelsfield in March 1945 at The Bunglaow, Crown Rd/Warren Rd. I was born on the day that the last doodle bug bomb was sent over by the Germans and it dropped not far from where I was born. I have been told that ...Read more
A memory of Chelsfield by
Betchworth Village Shop
A school friend at Reigate Grammar was Joe Cheffings; his parents ran the village shop and bakery about midway to the church, on the left of the picture. An elder brother, Tony, helped at home when on holiday from St. Paul's ...Read more
A memory of Betchworth in 1947 by
Captions
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The blinds are up over the shop windows.
Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.
In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.
The garage's tea shop has been gutted and altered to a car showroom.
Note Mr Overend's tiny one-up-one-down draper's shop to the right.
Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876.
A 'new style' double-decker bus pulls up at the Library bus stop. Piccadilly Buildings, opposite, were designed to harmonise with the Library.
The pillars of Eastgate Market announce the entrance to this busy shopping centre. Note the wonderful carvings on the buildings on the right by the old Saracens Head hotel.
Fisherton Street was an important shopping street linking the railway station with the city centre.
Shops soon started to try and out-do one another offering double, triple and even quadruple stamps.
Although the buildings to the extreme left and right of the photograph are little changed apart from their shop fronts, the Gaumont Cinema has gone, making space for an unattractive supermarket.
This narrow lane shows exactly how the back streets of the old town would have looked 200 years ago.
Booth's shop, beyond the signpost, marks the beginning of Stockerston Road.
The shop sold postcards, and displays model yachts in the doorway for sailing on one of the pools on the beach.
They would arrive on an early ferry with their wicker baskets and 'set up shop' along the promenade or on the beach.
In this view, which looks towards Ramsden Square, the sign by the blind (left) proclaims a drug store, while one of the posters on the wall beyond is for Wheatleys Hop Bitters.
On the far left, two of the three shops in this corner of The Square are now occupied by chemists, as one of them is today.
The railings (left) are in front of Street Farmhouse of c1600; next is The Firs, dated 1908, then Savage's shop, and in the distance the sign of The Duke William.
On the left is the Gift Shop, which still thrives.
His shop blind couples 'Cycle Depot' with 'Furniture, China and Glass'.
Prominent shop signs include Frisby's shoe stores (left of centre) and photographer Percy S Smith (right) between a hairdressers and P J King's Rax Dairy.
The Billingham town shopping centre lies immediately behind the photographer.
The convergent flying buttresses of the 1907 Trinity Methodist Church spire soar above the mock-Tudor frontages over the parade of shops at the start of Cheam Road, with the Edwardian cupola of the Curzon
This wide High Street has altered little over the years, although the proprietors of many of the shops have changed.
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