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Inholmes
My aunt and uncle became the caretakers at Inholmes after it was converted to offices. I remember the magnificent staircase which had a huge eagle as a newel post. The range in the kitchen was the biggest I have ever seen, and the ...Read more
A memory of Burgess Hill in 1952
Boltro Road Businesses
I remember from the mid 1970's I was planning to have a career as a Town Planner (ended up training as an RMN at St Francis) and was always writing studies on post war Haywards Heath. Needless to say, I was delighted to ...Read more
A memory of Haywards Heath by
Post War Crays Hill And Four Gables
After WW2 my father started a rabbit farm - for food and fur - at 'Four Gables' Crays Hill. I remember it was down a lane to the right from the main road, if you were going to Billericay. I went to the school ...Read more
A memory of Crays Hill in 1940 by
Post Office
I vaguely remember being taken into the Post Office. I was aware that my father held me and I was corrected as I wanted to take the pen out of his top pocket whilst waiting for my mother. I remember it as being very large and spacious.
A memory of Norwich in 1962 by
Visiting Needham Market In The 1970s
My sister and I used to visit my three uncles each Sunday. They all were unmarried and lived in the family house in The Causeway. Not having children of their own, they doted on us girls and spoilt us ...Read more
A memory of Needham Market by
My Mother Was Evacuated To Buckinghamshire Twice!
Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many children ...Read more
A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by
Mixture
The quaint older houses on the right now faced new bungalows to our left, and on our left is another walkway to the primary school. Now Jimmy came to live in one of the bungalows and then he came to our school when he was about 10. He was from ...Read more
A memory of Eastry by
Growing Up In Penge (1947 Onwards)
I have said that my early life began in Penge in 1947, but that is only as far back as I can remember. Although I was still only two then, I do have a very good memory. I can remember while I was in a pram outside the ...Read more
A memory of Penge in 1947 by
The Carlton Ballroom
It was a must in the 1960's. The Carlton was in the High Street near the post office, a few steps were at the front, leading to the entrance and it was always packed. They had a bar upstairs where you stood drinking looking down ...Read more
A memory of Slough
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Wilkinson's took over from Fine Fare (right) at the same time as the decorated art work on the pediment above the blank front was lost.
Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts. In the 12th century King John had a hunting lodge in the area.
for the Glasgow-Tarbert-Ardrishaig run, 'Columba' was not only the first Clyde paddler fitted with full-width passenger saloons, but she also had a bookshop, hairdressing saloon, fruit stall and post
Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts. Just off the main through road, H Kemp, Stores and Post Office, is still trading.
Wyddial's greatest claim to fame is that is cut in half by the Meridian Line - a tiny cast iron commemoration post has been set up opposite the entrance to Wyddial Hall.
On the right of the road the Castle Inn is still selling beer; the post office (nearer the camera), run for many years by the late Mr Rickard, Senior, a great enthusiast of watermills and windmills, now
The Post Office of 1839 was superseded by a new one in Bow Street (1891). The air of Victorian prosperity is clear to see.
Across the East Borough junction, the chemist Frederick Seymour also ran a post office and a depot for the Christian Knowledge Society.
On the right of the road the Castle Inn is still selling beer; the post office (nearer the camera), run for many years by the late Mr Rickard, Senior, a great enthusiast of watermills and windmills, now
By 1849 there had been two extensions added, along with a post office and news room.
This has always been a good spot for fly posting: here on the left we have amongst others a poster which announces a whist drive, and another tells us that Gipsy Smith is appearing in the town.
Fleming was in Italy again in 1419 when the Bishop of Lincoln died, and he was consecrated to the vacant post in the cathedral at Florence.
By 1849 there had been two extensions added, along with a post office and news room.
By 1849 there had been two extensions added, along with a post office and news room.
The pavements have been removed and the post box in front of the Butter Cross has moved into Little Minster Street, next to the Vickers shop (right) that is now O2.
Prior to this, the Old Town Hall (1780), the offices of The Hampshire Post and Pince's School obscured the view of St Peter's from the Square. In 1898 these buildings were pulled down.
The lamp post has been replaced by a more ornate lantern celebrating Queen Victoria's Jubilee. This was relocated from the market place, and the locals call it 'Blind Sam's Lamp'.
The mile-post on the hill still tells of 70 miles to Dublin, but those are Irish miles.
On the left of 33602, the lumpy roofs of the 14th-century Old Post Office plunge and pitch, the stout chimneys poking at the sky.
This shows the view looking along Reading Road, past the current Post Office and the Shell petrol pump, to the junction with Friday Street and into Duke Street as it heads towards the Market Place.
Philpot's General Stores was also used as a slaughterhouse until the early 1950s, when it became the post office.
The post office (left) is now a Celtic gift shop. The walls have gone, and cobbles found in the rear garden have been laid at the front.
At the far end is Abbeygate Street, with the three-storey Barclays Bank of 1881, which incorporated the Post and Sorting Office until 1895, the Midland Bank of 1914, and Whipps the fishmonger.
The Metropole Hotel, beloved as a modern day conferencing venue and purveyor of Victoriana, looks a little sleepy in this post-war photograph.
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