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Ww2
I was evacuated to some wooden bungalows in Goring Road and lived with Percy and Renee Bonner. Renee's relations were Romany gypsies who lived in Woodcote. The photo shows The White Lion and the village shop which I believe was "Pointers ...Read more
A memory of Woodcote in 1940 by
Church Corner Treasures
One of the 'treasures' of Church Corner, Misterton was the Post Office which was run by Dorothy and Gordon. I often visited there as Dorothy was the sister of my boyfriend at that time. Nearby was Walter Scott who was the ...Read more
A memory of Misterton in 1946 by
Howe's Garage, Longfield
Rather than Longfield Hill, this looks more like Longfield itself with Howe's Garage in the centre foreground. My Dad worked here from the late 1930s to when he retired in 1973; it was run by his uncle Frank Howe and ...Read more
A memory of Longfield Hill in 1960 by
Frees Post Office And Grocery Longworth
Having spent the first seven years of my life in Longworth, I remember Free's shop vividly. The Frees were friendly, welcoming people. Mr Free had curly hair and wore a tan-coloured kind of overall-coat. ...Read more
A memory of Longworth in 1960 by
Happy Childhood
I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and ...Read more
A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by
Station Road
The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles. Thorley’s, the cattle feed merchants, has gone, to be replaced by ...Read more
A memory of Horley
Living At The White Hall Billesdon C 1972 1979
We moved to the White Hall when I was 2, almost 3, and my sister was 5 weeks old! It was a wonderful house to grow up in - lots and lots of space, inside and out, and were were fortunate enough to ...Read more
A memory of Billesdon in 1972 by
Snow Time
My father was the local postman until he had a serious accident at Middle Wallop. One of my memories of Nether Wallop was him telling me how it had snowed so hard on one occasion that when he delivered mail in School Lane where the ...Read more
A memory of Nether Wallop by
Pleasant Memories
We lived in Wombwell from1970-80, we lived on the Dove Rd Estate. We have lovely memories of our time in Wombwell before we emigrated to Canada. My kids went to Park St. School then Wombwell High. Shopping at Hillards, the Co-op, ...Read more
A memory of Wombwell
Thatch Cottage, Singleton
We bought a thatched cottage, in much need of renovation, next door to the butchers shop. It was a tied Goodwood Cottage previously occupied by Mrs Myrtle Ticehurst who remained a tenant when she was widowed ...Read more
A memory of Singleton in 1971
Captions
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The buildings on the left were once market stalls, which developed into permanent shops.
In the centre is the general store with a fish and chip shop, then owned by D A Chatters. The water tower behind the thatched cottage has since been demolished.
Further north along the High Street, the photographer looks past the junction with Vicarage Street past a jumble of piecemeal development, mostly late 19th-century small shops.
East Looe's cramped main street, edged with a jumble of jettied shops and cottages, tapers down to the quay. Looe's twin towns are joined by a picturesque seven-arched bridge.
Collins had another shop in Pier Gap.
Another popular place in the winter months was George Scott's blacksmith's shop. The forge lit up the whole street at night-time.
On the left, outside the butcher's at Nos 74 - 76, is probably the proprietor Frederick Rogers; on the right, outside No 65 - Miss Fanny Bodle, greengrocer, fruiterer, coal and wool dealer - are the shop
Milton Street forms one of the main commercial areas of Saltburn, and is characterised by some fascinating glazed canopies across the shop fronts that survive to this day.
Varco the watchmaker's shop is on the right, while J M Williams' store advertises the products of the Pure Soda Water Co.
It is some 50 years after photograph 59345 was taken, and we are looking up the lane with the village shop and the Falcon Inn on the left.
The first three shops on the right have all changed hands over the years.
On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.
There was a time when Crewe market was at its busiest after 6.30pm, workers having gone home for a bite to eat before coming out to shop. As
The design of the ground floor now suffers sadly from the modern shop fronts.
The Brewer family were at the Red Lion, which is just past the shop.
One of the main shopping streets of the town, this photograph of Union Street conveys something of the bustling nature of the area.
The sign reads 'The smallest public house in England, originally a blacksmith's shop. King Charles I stopped here to have his horse shod.
The corner shop on the immediate left distinguishes Llando Terrace.
The town has become a haven for leisure yachtsmen, with many of its shops devoted to water sports and its old inns occupied by the sailing fraternity.
He was responsible for building the splendid shops on the right, as well as an adjacent hotel opposite the station.
As the community expanded, so the need for shops grew; in 1883 Kent built this row on Warwick Road, rather immodestly calling it Kentish New Town.
A pair of ladies in fashionable Edwardian costume stroll along the raised pavement of Rowcroft on their way to the shops of King Street. A little ahead of them is a gas lamp standard.
He ran a protection racket, for example, and with his young gang of hooligans dammed a stream through the town so that it flooded the shop of a butcher who would not pay him protection money - or so the
The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.
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