Woodstock, Market Street c.1960
Photo ref: W258121
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Photo ref: W258121
Photo of Woodstock, Market Street c.1960

More about this scene

A Royal Blue coach bound for Liverpool pulls into Market Street. The Cotswold-stone Dorchester Hotel, seen on the extreme left of the photograph, opened in 1947. After extensive refurbishment, it reopened as the Feathers in the 1980s. The 17th-century building was originally four separate houses.

A Selection of Memories from Woodstock

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My father came up from Wales to work at Blenheim as a youngster.He was born in 1922 and he started work as a teenager, I think. His first name was Edward, but as there was another already in post, so they called him by another name. Apparently the staff were responsible for taking him for his first pint! I do not know how long he was there, but he had tales of swimming in the lake, of the family going to Scotland leaving a skeleton staff with a deliciously full pantry. I wish I knew more!