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Married Quarters Inkerman Road
My dad was a military policeman stationed at Inkerman Barracks and we lived at No. 1 MSQ Inkerman Road. It was great fun there, the woods over the road, next to the Victoria Cafe (all now gone). To the side of No. 1 ...Read more
A memory of Knaphill in 1959 by
Saturday Afternoon Shopping
I do remember Andover about this time. We lived in Tidworth at the time and my father had a car with petrol allowance as he was a Barrack officer. We went to Andover, mum, myself and him every Saturday afternon and had ...Read more
A memory of Andover in 1946 by
I Know You!
It’s lovely to read all your memories especially yours Deb, my best friend! I was at Berwick Road Primary school from 1960-1965, I remember the aptly named Mrs Pie the dinner lady, also Mr Jones the new assistant head who had ...Read more
A memory of Little Sutton in 1960 by
Happy Days
I was stationed in the RE's in Andover - Barton Stacey camp. Remember shopping in 'International Stores' supermarket as they had good looking girls ! I also recall being in a cafe when some of the Troggs came in. Happy days, must return for a visit some day.
A memory of Andover in 1968 by
Chapmans Dairy.
This building was Chapmans Dairy and belonged to my family. It was originally two houses, numbers 22 and 23, with a stable at the rear for the ponies. The door now remaining led into the shop and the downstairs windows were bay windows. The whole building was painted white! How it has changed!
A memory of Hastings in 1940
Sherfield Post Office
My wife and I owned Sherfield-on-Loddon post office (pictured far left) from July 1991 until July 1999. In 1992 the shop front pictured was extended out into the garden about 15 feet and a complete refit ...Read more
A memory of Sherfield on Loddon in 1999 by
Fair Green
I lived in that stange area of Mitcham known as Lonesome, situated between the level crossing at Eastfields and the bottom of Streatham Vale. It was a sort of 'No Man's Land'. My schooling from 1951- 1957 took place first at the wooden ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by
The Mersey Tunnel
To visit Grandma and Grandad McCann we travelled this way from Ellesmere Port. They lived in Scotland Road and he had a cobbler shop.
A memory of Liverpool in 1955 by
Cranford 1975 80
Hello. I used to live on Berkeley Ave. I remember the parade of shops. There was a row of Co-op shops, baker, butcher, mini market and I think a green grocer. After the shops was an alley where there was a milk company, I think ...Read more
A memory of Cranford in 1978 by
Ladd Family 1878
My grandfather Ernest Ladd, born Eastry 1878, is buried in the churchyard. Although as a child when visiting my grandmother we would tend the grave and put flowers on it, I only have a vague recollection of its location. My mother ...Read more
A memory of Eastry in 1950 by
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Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855. A little way beyond, set back from the road, is the Brown Cow.
Shops and a post office overlook the junction in the centre of the village by the railway station. Just along Station Road, on the left by the chemist is the Marine Café.
Judging by the rows of sweet jars on display in E W Winfield's Cash Stores, it must have been a popular shop with the local youngsters.
The village, with its church of St Andrew, retains many old thatched brick and half-timbered cottages, along with a village shop.
The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.
This view shows Southwold harbour on the other side of the river, with sailing craft, repair shops and landing stages.
Hayes department store on the right, now expanded from the one shop in this view, and on the left the picturesque Walcot Parade of about 1770, with its vaults for coal cellars and stores beneath the curving
Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community
In those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.
The newsagents and tobacconists shop – Robinsons, centre - displays the wealth of bold advertising material so typical of the period.
The Five Lamps area was full of character - small shops, old buildings, interesting people. The development of complex new road systems for Teesside removed everything you can see here.
In the centre is the Institute, and the shop with the blind down was F Bromley, a butcher's.
This view shows that there was still a wide variety of shops and trades in the 1960s whose origins lay in mid-Victorian times; today, modern retail development has replaced them.
Further on are the Jockey Club and a large shop, now Palmer's, dated 1832.
The cottages to the right were at this time home and shop to H Woolley, a saddler, as they had been since around 1900.
In the foreground would have been a collection of dilapidated shops, and a large wooden maltings out of shot to the right.
The white building, housing a café and a confectioners, was once a girl's school, while Astbury's was a butcher's shop, which was established in the 19th century.
Note the small shops along the front of the Baths, and the Bridge Café opposite, now the Curry Kuteer. Firemen used the tower of the Baths for hang- ing hose-pipes to dry.
To the left, the corner shop with the large awning is now a bookmakers. These once quiet roads are now filled with heavy traffic.
Amongst many other attractions, the museum has a reconstruction of a Victorian shopping street. Thousands of people flock here annually to this, one of the best-known museums in Britain.
There are a lot of shops now, and many of the houses that were first built have now altered to accommodate the increase in trade. Traffic travels both ways.
The shop also sold a wide range of groceries.
THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.
In the 18th century, Farningham was a stopping place on the main London-Dover road, but was by-passed with the construction of the A20.
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