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Police Station
I have only just found this site. I was born in 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, my Mom was sent there as bombs were falling still in the London area and Woodford was still getting there fair share. We lived in an alleyway ...Read more
A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1947 by
Army Life As A Child
I lived in Larkhill as a small child in the very late fifities. In those days you could walk to Stonehenge and there were no barriers to stop you going right up to the stones. In the local primary school most of the children ...Read more
A memory of Larkhill by
481 Thackley Road
We own the balloon and party supply shop in Thackley, Ideaz at 481 Leeds Road. It would be really interesting to learn what other uses the shop had prior to us.
A memory of Thackley by
The Clock Tower
I lived in Corby between the ages of 2 and 4. We lived in the brand new flats opposite the shops. There was a large car park and I have memories of the communal washing lines and going with mum to hang the washing. From the kitchen ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1965 by
Memories Of Council Estate And Football
My family moved to the council estate in Elstree in the mid sixties. I used to play football on the pitch opposite Hill House, now sadly a new housing estate. Robert Stores for groceries, the aptly named ...Read more
A memory of Elstree in 1967 by
Drapers Shop Connaught Avenue
My great great grandmother, Eliza Hone, ran a Drapers Shop in Station Rd (later Connaught Avenue), after she was widowed from the late 1800's and she was included on 1901 & 1911Census's. My grandmother, ...Read more
A memory of Frinton-On-Sea in 1900 by
Sutton High Street In The 60s And 70s
Sutton Station holds some great memories from the 60's, including childhood summer holidays. Before we had a car I remember catching the express 'corridor train' to the south coast...so exciting! I live in ...Read more
A memory of Sutton
Growing Up In Gildersome
I was born in 1952 and lived in Gildersome until I was 19 years old. My name until then was Lorraine Thompson. I have many happy memories of living in the village. Until I was 4 years old I lived in a terrace called ...Read more
A memory of Gildersome in 1952 by
Captions
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This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop
The simple but somehow graceful shop fronts have gone, although the buildings remain, including the Old Fire Station of 1873, with its prominent tower.
He had been pulled out of the sea after the ship had been torpedoed off Start Point with the loss of 600 men. Charles Atkins was the landlord.
A close inspection of the shops to either side of the Market Hall reveals their late medieval origins.
Here, shopkeepers, their families and employees pose for the photographer; note Dick's display of shoes on the right.
Walter Wells (left) sold clocks - one of which survives in the Union Street Schoolroom - and jewellery, hence the ring sign above his shop front.
The view down the town's busiest trading place begins with grocer and wine merchant Sarah Chapman's shop front (left) facing the Volunteer Inn (far right), where the landlord was Tom Searle.
a remarkable number of hotels and hostelries; on the right is the Griffin Hotel, established in the 16th century, an important posting house that closed in 1986 and was converted into shops
And the piled tins in the shop window? Just imagine what a 21st-century toddler could do with those.
Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.
On the left is the grocerís shop of H Tranter.
This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).
(Marion Hill) This view, taken from about the same point as ZZZ05124, below, shows the surviving facade of the LNWR's fire station (now a music shop).When it opened in 1911, it was 'very well-equipped
The shops on the near left, housing Browns, Percy's the confectioners and Rennie's opticians, are in a new building, but three doors along the bay- fronted upper storeys visible in the earlier photograph
The end shop is a chemist's, J A Haynes, which soon moved a few doors to the left. Although now a restaurant, the words 'Mentone Pharmacy' in brass have been retained.
In the parade of shops Frederick W Paine, the undertaker, is still in business, although his trademark showing an oversized lantern has gone, leaving just its bracket.
To the left of the post office is the chemistís shop of Alfred Nicholson, who had these new premises built here in 1884.
Note the grave slabs and box tombs, and the rear of Brookfields shop behind the church.
The lady on the bridge would very likely be going to the shops - she is just about to pass over the second arch of the railway bridge which accommodated the branch line forking off to Midhurst
Fortunately the Wheatsheaf of 1900 on the right survives as an O'Neills pub, and so does the former Burton's on the opposite corner, but most of the right-hand buildings have gone for the Belfry Shopping
The butcher`s shop on the extreme right is H J Box; the family owned grazing lands nearby, which enabled them to sell their high-quality meat locally.
Detail abounds in this more intimate shot of the row of shops immediately east from the Town Hall and the Greyhound Hotel. All the windows are full of offerings from floor to ceiling.
One of his briefs was to include the local Post Office in his photographs, so that it could then be turned into a postcard to sell in the shop.
In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.
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