Alton, Normandy Street c.1955
Photo ref:
A39058
Photo ref:
A39058
More about this scene
Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'. They were Nos 25-31 Normandy Street, and they, the Laughing Cat Cafe and the Queen's Arms beyond them were all demolished to make way for new Magistrates' Courts.
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Memories of Alton, Normandy 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 Alton, Normandy Street c.1955
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I remember "the laughing cat" around 1959/60 when it was a coffee bar, I was a patient at the nearby hospital when on occasion I would pay it a visit with a nurse I was friendly with on her afternoon off where we would hang around and play the jukebox, it was good to get away from the hospital confines for a while. Mick Higham
Far left in the foreground, partially shows the sign of "The Laughing Cat" café on Normandy Street....This was my mother's café from approximately 1952 - 1957, back then she was known as Eileen Mumford :)
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