Lydney, Newerne Street c.1950
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This is down-town Lydney in the days when books could be loaned from the newsagents for a few coppers a week via the Argosy Lending Library, and a liquid night out at the Fleece could be had for less than ten bob with enough change for fish and chips on the way home.
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A Selection of Memories from Lydney
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I spent a lot of time in the early 60's waiting for red and white buses there , to take me home from school.
If I'm not mistaken this is a picture of Lydney secondary modern school , I attended there in 1962 until I was 13 .
Not a very happy time for me , I was a very nervous boy and didn't fit in very well. We moved later to Yate nr Bristol.
The standard of education I found out later was low and my new school put me into a lower stream.
The shop on the extreme left is Harris's Newsagency. Then J. Clifford Hughes the chemist, then The Wool Shop. The long shop (three shops really) is Williams & Cotton: bread & cakes with a very tempting shop window with cream buns, jammy doughnuts, petits fours etc. I forget what was in the second shop, but the third was a drapery. Then a laneway, behind which was a bakery (presumably belonging to W & C), ...see more
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