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The Shop In The Picture.
My father, Peter Mansfield, owned this shop from c1955. He was an electrician and refrigeration engineer. I can remember filling cans with paraffin for my father to deliver. My future husband says he only married me because ...Read more
A memory of Felsted in 1955 by
'up The Baths'
I remember being 'taught to swim' here, by the teachers at the board school. We were stood at the poolside, only up to the black line, then summarily being to "Jump!". If that failed, we were helped in by the boot of 'Danny' Davis or ...Read more
A memory of Brynmawr in 1965 by
Dancing Lessons
It was 1952 and the NAAFI Club held dancing lessons. Now, trying to learn to dance in hobnailed Army boots was impossible, but I did chat up a NAAFI girl and arranged to meet her after her work, which I did. She had, to me, an ...Read more
A memory of Aldershot by
Boots.
Just on the left of the photo, by the first car, was Boots the chemist where my mum worked.
A memory of Penge by
Buying Sixpence Worth Of Stale Buns
I remember as a wee girl going with my brother Donald to buy sixpence worth of stale buns. I don't remember the bakers but it was behind Boots the Chemist. It was always a treat if your mum had a spare sixpence and ...Read more
A memory of Ayr in 1967 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
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
The 1950s
I was born at the maternity hospital in 1951, we lived at 3 St Oswalds Crescent and my granny and grandad lived close by on Park Road. I attended St Oswalds C of E School - I had a lady head teacher whose name escapes me before moving ...Read more
A memory of Ashbourne in 1958 by
Binbrook, The Holiday And Life.
Onwards and upwards through the years, I had an aunty and grandmother who lived there. Ending up at No2 Mount pleasant after living in Low Lane. Lilly and Bill Stone, parents of my mother Jaqueline Stone (now ...Read more
A memory of Binbrook in 1956 by
Where Was Boots In 1955?
I think that Boots was still on the other side of the road (as seen in the 1950 photo)
A memory of Haverfordwest in 1955 by
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It was only 10 ft long, ran on 10 inch wheels, and came with front-wheel drive and independent suspension.The battery was in the boot.
Once a coal business and a shoemaker's, it acquired its name from the last occupation - the Boot and Shoe Inn. Opposite was the village spring and pump. Note the thatched roof gives way to tiles.
Next to it is the Boatman's Reading Room, the Strand Boot Stores, and the Walmer Stores. Today the Deal Memorial Bandstand stands on the green.
The houses on the right were often occupied by boot and shoe makers, including John and Thomas Tull, Thomas Albury and George Parsons.
Moving south from Thrapston we reach Raunds, another small Northamptonshire market town transformed into a Victorian boot and shoe manufacturing town.
The Bridge Hotel, the white-painted building to the left, is now a Beefeater pub, and Boots (centre right) has become Lloyds, reflecting a prosperous retail shopping centre.
Boots Corner was quite a landmark, and there are still old customers around who preferred the old rather than the new shop in Baxtergate.
Where A Fryer once sold boots and shoes (left), there is now a private house.
Drifut's, on the extreme left, is offering customers coloured sand shoes and baseball boots to augment its traditional old-style repair business.
The most striking change comes with the pedestrianisation of this area and the erection of a wrought iron archway, proclaiming the High Street.
The most striking change comes with the pedestrianisation of this area and the erection of a wrought iron archway, proclaiming the High Street.
Sir Jesse Boot, who donated the land and financed the building of the college, was unable to attend the opening ceremony owing to his disabilities, but afterwards the King and Queen took tea with him
The Maypole Grocery Store (dried peas 1s 6d), Boots the Chemist and Halfords (everything for your Raleigh bicycle) are the shops overlooking the War Memorial, which by then had had the names added
A little further down is F Ward the boot maker's shop.
On the right is Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd with their 'boot warehouse' at 33 High Street. Between them and the Swan is Drury's - 'the shop for men'.
The inn looks across the High Street to Boots Cash Chemists and Stationers.
On the left is Scales & Sons boot and shoe establishment, formerly Scales and Salter. The building next to Scales was demolished and the site redeveloped for Spencer & Co.
Hilton's shop is still a boot and shoe shop, but Mr O'Connor is the owner.
It appears that passengers would have been well advised to wear Wellington boots!
From the right they were Thomas the ironmongers, built in 1886, the Post Office of 1895 with the Royal Arms on the gable, and Boots' Tudor fantasy of 1910.
The old-style frontage of Boots the chemists can be seen across the road. The shoppers' summer dresses suggest the time of year.
On the left is a formidable display of boots and shoes cascading over the shop facia.
The banner on Boots' Corner advertising Warrington's annual Walton Horse Show suggests this photograph was taken near Whitsuntide.
Freston is well known for the Freston Elizabethan tower overlooking the estuary, the Boot public house, and the parish church.
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