Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[Dnblade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[corkysbeard]

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That top photo was prior to polytechnic/university buildings being built was it?

 

[Lane Ender]

On the top photo zoom in and just look how many tower blocks there use to be on Norfolk Park.....loads.

I lived in the Jervis Block on Beeches Drive

 

[Sean Thornton]

 

[corkysbeard]

I lived in the Jervis Block on Beeches Drive

My sister lived on the blue block on Guildford view.

 

[corkysbeard]

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I used to live across from the chimney on crown place after the pubs and shops had been demolished.

 

[Dnblade]

That top photo was prior to polytechnic/university buildings being built was it?

Not sure Corky to be honest.it looks like an older picture.

 

[corkysbeard]

Not sure Corky to be honest.it looks like an older picture.

The pictures been took from arundel gate hasn't it?

 

[Dnblade]

Redgates the toysarus of our times?

Yes,it was the only shop I was interested in as a kid apart from Suggs when my Mum dragged me across nearly every shop in town.

 

[spongebobblade]

I keep coming back to this thread time and time again
Fabulous

 

[corkysbeard]

Yes,it was the only shop I was interested in as a kid apart from Suggs when my Mum dragged me across nearly every shop in town.

Suggs,Redgates and possibly beatties.

 

[spongebobblade]

Hung on my wall...... a programme for the final match of the 52/3 season against Hull. We were already champions but lost 2-0. Below is a team picture signed by Joe and Graham Shaw, Jimmy Hagan and a couple of others

 

[corkysbeard]

This threads better than a geography/history lesson way back in the days of me attending St johns/Parkhill and Norfolk schools.

 

[Grappler]

 

[Dnblade]

I'm back in 1973...just nipping in for some Oxford Bags.

 

[corkysbeard]

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I'm back in 1973...just nipping in for some Oxford Bags.

I was only 3 back in 1973 so a tad before my time tramps...my shop was Harrington s in the market for my yellow,orange,black and maroon stapress,loved them.

 

[Dnblade]

Haha,phone boxes in Fitzalen square.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I used to live across from the chimney on crown place after the pubs and shops had been demolished.

Can't remember the order or names now but on that block going up from the Samson there was a bakers/cake shop, barbers, Toy Shop, women's clothes, children's clothes, florist great chip shop, some I can't recall at the moment and Willoughbys Newsagents on the corner. A dark little place run by two sisters.

Across the road, fruit and veg, butchers a post office? And Gunstones.

Further up Duke Street opposite Park Hill there was a cafe, bookies and a kids clothes shop, some office and a couple of others. Then School Street where I went to St Johns and then further up Peaches beer off, Weigh Lane, butchers, fruit and veg, fresh fish, Red Lion Conservative Club, undertakers and the New Inn. Then round on Bernard Street to Butchers Sweet shop.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Suggs,Redgates and possibly beatties.

Wilson Gumperts

 

[Grappler]

 

[Grappler]

 

[Grappler]

I was only 3 back in 1973 so a tad before my time tramps...my shop was Harrington s in the market for my yellow,orange,black and maroon stapress,loved them.

 

[Grappler]

 

[Grappler]

 

[Grappler]

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[metalblade]

 

[metalblade]