Hoveton, The Village c.1950
Photo ref: H399112
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Photo ref: H399112
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Three decades later, the quiet cross ways of the previous view present a very different character. Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners. The proprietors are after the visitors' holiday money: there are signs for chocolate, cards, Kodak film, millinery, soft drinks, toilet requisites... and in the distance hoardings advertise trips on the Broads, Judges postcards, guides and maps, Goss china and newspapers.

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I left school at 15 in 1953, and like many others of my age went to work at A R Taylors timber merchants.  I first worked at the Tunstead road site.  It was hard work and unlike today there was no such thing as a contract of employment so you did whatever anyone who was older than you told you to do.  I remember one of my jobs was to go around every morning to take orders from the workers for cigarettes, tobacco and ...see more