The building on the left was Passmans transport cafe, now the Silver hairpin passage. To the right was Lord Nelsons Yard I believe. The large house used to be Morriseys the dentists, the passage to the right is Hauxwells Yard I believe and the house to the right belonged to Mr Smithard.
Could this picture have captured the building in which my wife, baby daughter, and I lived circa 1953? We rented the top floor of a building, located to the right of an archway as viewed from the front, which housed a shoe-store run by Reuben Ibbertson and wife Helen. The building to the left of the archway was operated as public house. I beleive the Ibbertson building eventually housed a bank. Our accomodation, hard to obtainand in postwar years, was served by a shared bathroom on the floor below, (our daily kitchen water was bucketed up from the bathroom )and how happy we were to be living in such good quarters, and with such a good landlord and land-lady. Our rented home was located almost outside of the town hall which área became almost the hub of the annual fair ( was it in October?), becoming very boisterous for a few days – “rides” and horse-trading huge features of the event. If anyone can pin-point the dwelling that I have described by identifying any one of the group of pictures in this series they would make me very happy – I could show it off to my daughter!
The building on the left was Passmans transport cafe, now the Silver hairpin passage. To the right was Lord Nelsons Yard I believe. The large house used to be Morriseys the dentists, the passage to the right is Hauxwells Yard I believe and the house to the right belonged to Mr Smithard.
Could this picture have captured the building in which my wife, baby daughter, and I lived circa 1953? We rented the top floor of a building, located to the right of an archway as viewed from the front, which housed a shoe-store run by Reuben Ibbertson and wife Helen. The building to the left of the archway was operated as public house. I beleive the Ibbertson building eventually housed a bank. Our accomodation, hard to obtainand in postwar years, was served by a shared bathroom on the floor below, (our daily kitchen water was bucketed up from the bathroom )and how happy we were to be living in such good quarters, and with such a good landlord and land-lady. Our rented home was located almost outside of the town hall which área became almost the hub of the annual fair ( was it in October?), becoming very boisterous for a few days – “rides” and horse-trading huge features of the event. If anyone can pin-point the dwelling that I have described by identifying any one of the group of pictures in this series they would make me very happy – I could show it off to my daughter!