Althorne, Main Road c.1955
Photo ref:
A107004
Photo ref:
A107004
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This village lies close to the River Crouch. We can see the sign for the Black Lion hotel on the last building in the row. The weatherboarded cottages nearby are known as Black Lion Cottages. The two shops in the foreground display advertisements for Oxo, Lifeguard soap and Lamberts teas, and many other products.
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A Selection of Memories from Althorne
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. Here are some from Althorne
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Just a few memories from when I lived in Althorne. We moved there from a very different way of living and were told we would find it hard to Fit in. Well in the summer holidays of September 77 we all turned up Mum Ann, Dad Brian, me and my 2 sisters Diane and Josephine now known as di and jo. The Endway Althorne. I was only 9 years old but remember it well. I went to Mayland and Althorne school just to the left of ...see more
My name is Clair salmon I was born at my home in althorne the house called charmouth on burnham road, I arrived late in July 1974. I was the youngest of two children, my sister phillippa was three years older than me she had been born in doddinghurst then my parents moved to althorne not long before I was born. I have some wonderful memories of the people of the village, we used to keep our horse at mal bass,s ...see more
We used to live here between 2007-2009. It may have been a nice pub a long time ago and it still looked ok when this photo was taken which was the year I was born, but from the time we moved in from the time we moved out we shared the house with hundreds of mice! I'm glad we're gone but I bet the mice still live there!.
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