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My Grandparents
My grandparents lived at Fern Cottage. They moved there before the war and had two children, Dick and Jean. Dick was based at Wick and died in the war. Jean, my mum, married and had me and my sister. I have wonderful ...Read more
A memory of Cropwell Bishop in 1960 by
West Street Shops
Shops on West Street in the 1960s were left to right: Merritts the butcher next door to Blackiston the butcher, famous for the specialty sausages, also had its own slaughterhouse and in the back garden an Anderson shelter used ...Read more
A memory of Midhurst in 1960 by
Grandfathers Memories
My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more
A memory of Cobham in 1946 by
Wolverhampton
Milano's was always a place my mother told me not to go to. I worked in Queen Street in a solicitors and had to deliver mail to all the other offices by hand. I saw my first Beatles movie in Wolverhampton. My sister 's haunt ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton in 1965
Victoria Park Latchford
I remember when there used to be a place in Victoria Park, Latchford, called `The Pavillion'. It had a row of bushes beside it - dividing it from a sunken paddling pond that had rather ornate brick walls around it and ...Read more
A memory of Warrington in 1945
Living At The Mill
My father got a job in the mill in about 1950 and we moved into Mill House which is actually a part of the mill itself, on the right as you stand facing the building. I don't know what Bordon is like now, but in my day it had its ...Read more
A memory of Bordon in 1950 by
With Mum And Dad In Church Street, Enfield, Middlesex.
I believe this is a photograph of me, James Ernest Thomas Massey, being pushed in my pram by my father Ernest James Massey, and mother Rosina Massey, towards our home above Dolcis shoe shoe at 5 Burleigh Way, Enfield Middlesex, sometime in the first year of my life. God Rest their souls.
A memory of Enfield in 1945 by
Happy Memories Of South Woodford
My family lived in Hillcrest Road, South Woodford from 1960 to 1973. I had a very very happy childhood there (am still happy though) but had to move to Brighton to attend a deaf school and to avoid the need ...Read more
A memory of South Woodford in 1965 by
That Old Shoe Shop
The old shoe shop was called "Caiger's Boot Store" and was run by my two elderly great aunts, Ruth & Kizz (Kezia) untill 1969. Their father, Frederick Caiger who married the previous owner's daughter, owned and ran the ...Read more
A memory of Wokingham by
Thos Were The Days
I have read all the letters and they have bought back so many memories. My sister and I were born in Hillingdon and from 1961 we used to go to Burtons dance hall on Tues, Friday and Saturday nights. We would also go to The Blue ...Read more
A memory of Uxbridge in 1961 by
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As late as 1870, enclosure meadowland and hawthorn hedges stretched away from Wigston, but the ensuing period up to 1900 was to see a trebling of population figures as hosiers and boot and shoe manufacturers
Renovation of the floors uncovered numerous artefacts, including clay pipes and two leather shoes of the 17th or 18th century, which are on display in the Museum & Heritage Centre.
The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.
Adjacent to the public house was the range of New Swindon Co-operative Society shops, comprising menswear, footwear, shoe repairs, drapery, confectionery and grocery stores.
On the opposite corner is Freeman, Hardy & Willis`s shoe shop (now the Edinburgh Wool Shop), and further down is the International Tea Company.
The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.
The corner shop, here selling crockery, tin bowls and leather bags, is now Peter Briggs, a shoe shop, but it remains largely unchanged, even preserving the same windows we see here.
Here, shopkeepers, their families and employees pose for the photographer; note Dick's display of shoes on the right.
The right of the picture shows Rowswell's sweets and tobacco shop and it is still there.
She described herself as 'a desperate walker', but her eagerness was constrained by the necessity to be 'fussy and correct' in ensuring that she set off wearing the right attire.
Tea rooms and public houses, like the Three Horse Shoes (left), have always been a necessity in the village - when the estate was being investigated for purchase by the First Garden City company, Norton
No 11, selling boots and shoes, together with Lipton's teas (left), was the shop of clothier Harry Lane. No 12 was another tailor, Sidney Wellman (centre left).
The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right
The shops represented here are a mix of chain multiples (Burtons, Boots, Timpsons shoes, Woolworth's and the Maypole Dairy Co), and local chains, such as Alfred Preedy & Sons (second from right
The shop on the left is Jarman's the photographers. It was designed by William Spanton in 1863 for his 'Repository of the Arts' and was owned by Harry and Oswald Jarman from 1901 to 1962.
Chapman's the shoe repairer's (left) is now Rutland Fishing; next is now a book shop, and then comes the Royal Restaurant. Sidney Hudson the baker has been replaced by Simpole Clark, fine foods.
Chapman's the shoe repairer's (left) is now Rutland Fishing; next is now a book shop, and then comes the Royal Restaurant. Sidney Hudson the baker has been replaced by Simpole Clark, fine foods.
The block of buildings incorporating the Hotel Central and Lennards shoe shop (right) all have different occupants.
In 1737 this 'Essex butcher turned thief, smuggler and highwayman' (Markham) allegedly visited the Old Swan at Woughton, and reversed Black Bess's shoes so that his pursuers would set off after
Also on the left, outside the shop to let, we can see a Stead and Simpson delivery cycle; Stead and Simpson were an early chain store selling boots and shoes, and they were here until the late 1990s.
The block of buildings incorporating the Hotel Central and Lennards shoe shop (right) all have different occupants.
The Crown Hotel and Price & Son, boot and shoe- makers, can be seen. On the right-hand corner is the ironmonger. Further down, Esso Royal Daylight Oil and Calor Gas are advertised.
William Seward, a major businessman in the town during the early years of the century, built a new boot and shoe shop in the High Street in 1901 and followed this up with other new premises in
Two doors before the bank is the ancient Skipper Street, occupied by houses and the homes of a group of boot and shoe manufacturers.
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