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Shaftesbury, Gold Hill, St James c.1960
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Memories of Shaftesbury, Gold Hill, St James c1960

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. These memories are of Shaftesbury, Gold Hill, St James c.1960

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We lived from the late forties until 1957 in the Council houses at Crookhayes, The fields behind our houses were numerous and we used to enjoy watching the cows gadding about. The hedges surrounding the fields were great for the children to play in camps hollowed out of the hedgerows. In the summer a labourer came to cut the long grass behind our houses with his scythe. It all seems so idyllic now in ...see more
We lived in French Mill Lane so needed to walk up Gold Hill to go shopping. I was a toddler at this time and we had a jack Russell called Pepe. Mum used to tie him to the front of my tricycle and he would pull me up the hill.