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High Street
I can remember being taken shopping in the High Street, to Sainsbury's before it was a supermarket. There were tiled floors and walls, wooden counters with cheeses, cold meats and bacon, and the assistants wore their hair in nets or ...Read more
A memory of Ashford in 1956 by
Happy Days
My name is Brian Newman and I was born in Barking in 1942. My old man was a grocer and his shop was Newman Stores in Ripple Road by the Harrow, or as we called it, the "arrer". There was a long row of shops either side of Ripple Road. I ...Read more
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Lancing In The Fifties And Sixties
My family moved to Lancing when I was six months old, living first in Orchard Avenue and then Tower Road, which had a bad reputation - totally undeserved! I liked the fact that there were always children to play ...Read more
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Tobacco Shop In High Street
I was born in Barkingside and remember the Holy Trinity Church (Rev. Newman), where I was baptised, confirmed and married. I left in 1965. Memories abound! Especially riding my bike to Barton's bakery during Easter to ...Read more
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Good Times
I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the ...Read more
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Bluebells
My godmother and her parents lived 'forever' at Gravel Road, just up from the small shop on the Park Avenue end. With a marvellous garden of flowers, fruit and poultry; a walkway tunnel of Quince, a black & white tiled pathway to ...Read more
A memory of Farnborough in 1950 by
Edgecoombe, Selsdon 1957 61
I remember Selsdon well as my family lived at 68 Edgecoombe, the long road on the opposite side of the wood at Selsdon not to be confused with Selsdon Woods. We had two ways to get to Selsdon shops. Through the woods ...Read more
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Shops And Places The High Road And Ealing Road.
I was born and lived in Wembley until 1960. The Railway Hotel was the pub on the corner of Ealing Road and my mother was head housekeeper there for a long time. On the day of the Coronation the pub ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1953 by
Growing Up In Milford
My mother was in the WAAFs during WWII. She met my father (an American G.I.) at a dance in Henley. They married in 1944 and after the war, my mother traveled to the United States as a war bride. I was born in Nebraska in ...Read more
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Home
I grew up in Welling in a house on Ridley Road. My mother lived in that house for over 60 years until she died this past January. I have 3 sisters - that was a tiny house with 1 bathroom, at times we seemed to really fill the place - felt more ...Read more
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Known as Friar Bacon's study, it was used by Roger Bacon, the 13th- century astronomer and scientist, as an observatory.
This Victorian photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse and was used by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century astronomer and scientist, as an observatory.
The ceremonial bacon itself was carried in front, on a pole.
This view facing the medieval bridge shows the boatyard in the foreground with the old stocking factory on the right and the bacon factory on the left.
Central to the ceremony is the flitch of bacon itself.
In 1955 a 14oz loaf cost 4d; streaky bacon was 2s 11d a pound; potatoes were 3d a pound; fish and chips 9d a portion; and eggs were 3s 11d a dozen.
Shoppers at John Harrison's would have been paying something in the region of 6s 11d a pound for sirloin, 2s 1d for brisket, 2s 11d for streaky bacon, 4s 11d for a dozen eggs and around 3s 5d for a pound
It was carried in 20lb bundles up the steep cliffside and taken home to be cooked with vinegar and bacon.
Shoppers at John Harrison's would have been paying something in the region of 6s 11d a pound for sirloin, 2s 1d for brisket, 2s 11d for streaky bacon, 4s 11d for a dozen eggs and around 3s 5d for a pound
He wrote of 'my landlady here at Selborne, who, while I am writing my notes, is getting me a rasher of bacon, and has already covered the table with a nice clean cloth.'
The Harris bacon factory (in the background) was established as one of the main industries in this town.
Someone, perhaps Mr Gillam the grocer who owned the shop (left), is writing on the blackboard: lard was 6½d, sugar 2½d (one penny today) and 4d, with bacon at 8d, and cheese 9d and 10d.
At this time shoppers could expect to pay about 1s 4d for 2lb of sugar, 2s 11d for a lb of streaky bacon, 3s 10d for a dozen eggs, and 4d for a 14oz loaf.
Brian Coombs, who drove delivery lorries in the 1960s and 70s, remembers making several runs to Windsor Castle to deliver sausages and bacon.
Inside, you could buy almost anything: there was paraffin, bacon, and butter in a glass cabinet, and sweets in glass jars.
Further along on the right is the Gaumont Cinema next to Bowyers (Wiltshire Bacon Co).
Every four years a side of bacon (a flitch) is presented to a married couple who can prove that they have not regretted their marriage a year and a day after the ceremony.
For example, a pound of streaky bacon cost 1s 3d in 1914 and 2s 7d in 1920, but by 1933 had fallen back to 1s 5d.
The shop on the right with the sunshade is Hillier's Bacon Curing Company, a firm founded in 1819 by Isaac Hillier in a former Nailsworth woollen mill.
To the right is 'Streaky Bacon Terrace'.
The shop was established in c1900 and was by appointment to HM the Queen Mother purveyors of sweet pickle and mild cured ham and bacon.
W J Bacon's general store has awnings and a covered walkway to protect customers from both sun and shower.
Laver seaweed grows on the rocks: picked, boiled and served with bacon for breakfast it has a wonderful flavour - albeit something of an acquired taste.
Besides having good window displays, the shop would place blackboards outside: 'Danish prize dairy butter, Lancashire and Cheddar cheese, noted teas and coffees and unequalled Wiltshire and Danish bacon
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