Three Bridges, High Street c.1955
Photo ref:
T39013
Photo ref:
T39013
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Memories of Three Bridges, High Street c1955
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In the late 1950's I had an after school/Saturday job with Geddes. I had a pushbike with a basket and used to deliver medicines around Three Bridges & Worth; In addition I used to wash bottles, as in those days liquid prescriptions were made up by the chemist using returnable glass bottles.
Mr Geddes was very precise and every delivery was wrapped in thick white paper and sealed with sealing wax !
You can see two shops with their awnings to the left of Barker's Garage. The first shop was a newsagent/tobacconist run by Harold and Esther Dack. Esther was my mum's best friend. I remember going in there, aged about 8 or 9, to buy a "pink cone", ie an ice cream. The assistant misheard me, and after a certain amount of searching handed me a pink plastic comb. I was so speechless and embarrassed ...see more
I remember Barkers well, I used to play with one of the sons of the brothers that ran it; I bought my first adult bicycle from them (a Triumph, which I think was part of Raleigh). One of the family ran the taxi firm outside the station and was I think, captain of Three Bridges Cricket Club.
When I was a kid I had to walk from Pound Hill to Barkers every Saturday morning to fetch a gallon of Blucole paraffin for my dad. Barkers was the local garage/taxl rank. We lived in Pearson Road and then moved to Mill Road, Three Bridges around 1960. You can imagine 8 year old kids nowadays walking the best part of a mile there and back on their own actually out in the fresh air with no hand held gaming device to keep them happy.
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