Shirehampton, High Street c.1955
Photo ref: S270001X
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A Selection of Memories from Shirehampton

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 Shirehampton

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When my father got a job in Bristol after the war we moved to Bristol from Leeds but there was very little housing available. After a year of living with a family ‘in digs’ as it was called then, we were allocated a council flat in a beautiful Manor House at the bottom of Park Hill just off the green in Shirehampton. I have wonderful memories of being in the fabulous garden there all day with ...see more
Move to 31 Playford Gardens when they were built in 1955 as a kid. I remember the steam rollers still laying the main road, the new doctors at the bottom of Mancroft Ave, with Doctor Page and the open fields at the back where the M5 runs now. Good times and some great friends made there.
The shop at the top of the steps was the fish and chip shop. When I was a kid, used to get fish and chips there for 1 shilling and six pence (71/2p) on the way back from the cinema - both are long gone... good days.
I have many, many happy memories of the 1950s, my dad was your grandmother's brother? Reg Allen. I have memories of your granddad Joe and Ethel and the shop, they were always busy on a Saturday afternoon so I would come with one of my brothers over the Pill ferry from Portishead to play with your dad Joe, and Daisy. I now live in Bath. Your grandparents had a caravan at Redcliffe bay where I also spent many hours with them. Hope you may have a memory of who I am? (Betty Allen)