Aldershot, High Street c.1955
Photo ref: A31022
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Photo ref: A31022
Photo of Aldershot, High Street c.1955

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Seventeen years have passed but very little has changed on this stretch of High Street. Perhaps the people on the left are strolling down to the café in the Empire Cinema before seeing a film either there or in the Ritz next door.

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Memories of Aldershot, High Street c1955

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 Aldershot, High Street c.1955

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The ABC song certainly brought back memories of my regular Saturday morning trips to the pictures in the late 1940s and early 50s. In Aldershot we were lucky that the ABC – the Ritz, and the Empire – an Odeon cinema, were situated right next to each other. We looked at each programme displayed and, depending on which film we fancied, chose the one we wanted to see. It certainly gave our mums an ...see more