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Memories Of Erith
Erith was a great place to go when I was a kid as so many different shops and two department stores – Blundells and Micthell’s they were on opposite corners. I remember wondering around Micthell’s at Christmas time. I think Mitchell’s ...Read more
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The 70's At The Lake
My memories are of living at 37 pickmere lane from 1969 age 7. My mum Beryl Owen still lives there now and I still live in Wincham. I will always remember the "bob bob bob" of the motor boats which I could here from my bedroom ...Read more
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Streatham 1962 To 1975
St Andrews primary school with Mr Collins the headmaster and a very scary teacher called Mrs Mason. School dinners in the sea cadets hut across the road which looked like a ship inside!. Then Bishop Thomas Grant from 1968, ...Read more
A memory of Streatham
Wright's Car Hire
My grandad, Victor Wright, ran Wright's Car Hire in Ardleigh Green next to Carter's Bakery nearly opposite the school. He had 2 Humber limousines, a Studebaker and an Austin 18 for chauffeur driven hire. He and the other ...Read more
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1973 Demolition Year For The Market Buildings
I arrived in Wolverhampton when demolition of the market buildings was under way. The buildings in front of the church (in the photo) must have already been long gone, but the buildings on the side ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton
Pat Mayers Memories Of Staines
“My name was Pat Mayer, I used to live at 38 Ash Grove , not far from Keith and Janet Tucker as she was then, until 1961 when I got married, I was brought up during the war years and after with Beryl Prangley and Jacky ...Read more
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1940s And 50s
I was born in 1942 and lived in Ovington Grove behind The Lonnen. My memories would fill several books, but for starters:- the Regal; Quadrini's; Number 2 blue bus; Holy Cross Church; Cowgate then Wingrove Schools; playing football ...Read more
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Happy Days
My memories of the caravan site go back to the 1940s when my parents had a caravan there. It was situated at the edge of the site where there is an open field and a footpath. I went back last July for the first time in about 60 ...Read more
A memory of Swalecliffe in 1940 by
Sileby My Early Life
I was born in Mountsorrel 1938 and soon moved to Sileby 10, Mountsorrel Lane with my mother Mabel Foukes [nee Burton]. My father Thomas was in the army and my mum worked at Newbold Burton and Lawson Ward. I remember convoys of ...Read more
A memory of Sileby in 1940 by
Up The Overs
Walking free through the wet grass leaving dark trails. Ahead the meadow rises to the mill bank where we stand in silence. Silent and smooth the deep mill race slides towards the wheel. Turning away we follow the bank upstream to ...Read more
A memory of Kempston in 1950 by
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The market continues, but it is now more of a flea market and car-boot sale.
The tall building behind it was demolished to accommodate a half-timbered building for the new Boots chemist in 1911.
The buildings on the left as far as the white building with the blind extended have been replaced, mostly in the 1960s.
In the background a horse-drawn cart delivers ales and beers, and K Boots and Shoes are sold at the corner shop in the background.
We now move away from boot and shoe country into the south of Northamptonshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire.
Baker & Son, boot manufacturers, have their headquarters next to Pears & Sons, the dentists.
Built around its fine market place, it found new life in the 19th century when it joined Northamptonshire's boot and shoe industry with several factories and terraces of hard red Midland brick houses.
Most are family-owned, supplemented by more well-known names such as Boots (left). Lord Nelson was a pupil for three years at the town's Paston Grammar School.
Boots have changed their location to be in one of the new shops.
The bunch of grapes sign now hangs outside Boots, which now occupies the site - surely the only chemist so adorned.
Boots have changed their location to be in one of the new shops.
George Mason, the 'Largest Grocers in the Midlands', is now a Boots opticians.
George Mason, the 'Largest Grocers in the Midlands', is now a Boots opticians.
Boots (in the middle distance on the right) is also still with us, but the Coliseum cinema beyond is now a good museum of the town's history.
Boots the chemist had built their original store on the corner opposite the Royal Hotel at the bottom of Market Street.
The Co-operative Society has replaced Barton and Sons; next door is now Lloyds Bank, and then Boots. The Corn Exchange has its gates open.
The 'Brick' building sited opposite the Boot and Shoe was erected in 1770 out of bricks not needed for the Cloth Hall. In the 19th century, New Street became a banking location.
The Lamb pub, a late Victorian insertion, was demolished in 1974 and replaced by the present Boots, while all to the left of it went for the pallid neo-Georgian Martin's and a brutalist Waitrose
The corner shop is that of Cox and Humphries, a hardware and sports store, with Boots the Chemist towards the Market Place.
Boots the chemist had built their original store on the corner opposite the Royal Hotel at the bottom of Market Street.
Boots & David Lewis had led the way by being cash-only shops; by 1899, the trend of negotiating over a reduction in the marked price had almost died out.
The corner shop is that of Cox and Humphries, a hardware and sports store, with Boots the Chemist towards the Market Place.
Two doors along is Boots, 'the largest chemist in the world', and just beyond that Sainsbury's, with its distinctive shop interiors, spacious, practical and hygienic, worlds away from the small, cramped
The architecture of the High Street reflects the wealth that a depressed town gained from its booming boot and shoe industry in later Victorian times.
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