Send, Post Office 1929
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Photo ref:
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J & K Deadman's stores (left) would probably have sold every kind of provision you could have imagined - and more. The village grew with the industries that sprang up and prospered alongside the river and the navigation. These included Unwins print works, a tannery, the gravel pits, and three laundries.
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A Selection of Memories from Send
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Send
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Please could you, Audrey, send me an email with your address - I have reply to you, but sent to the wrong place. So sorry.
Pam Storey nee Thompson
In 1939 on the out break of the Second World War my father was sent to London aerodrome, from Cornwall, to repair bombers and fighter planes. I was born in Cornwall, 12 Dec 1940, and my mother wanting to be with her husband took me to Send, where father had managed to get a shared accommodation with another family, called the Gaigens, spelling may be wrong, together in a bungalow in Tannery Lane. I think the bungalow ...see more
I still visit this church, although it is locked much of the time. It looks even better today than it did way back then. The village of 'Send' was supposed to have been built around this church (I am told), however it ended up a couple of miles away. You can still see ruins of cottages along the side of the road if you know were to look. The name 'Send' comes from the word 'Sand', and you can see the effects of quarrying all over 'Send' all the way down to 'Send Marsh'.
To the rear of this picture stands Gladdings Stores. Around this time (1955) it was taken over by Mr Lemon, whose son was my childhood friend. It is now a flashy apartment block.
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