This week I have featured on the main Nostalgia page an article recounting the history of village shops.
I have taken the village of Flackwell Heath as an example. Here we show more pictures of the shops in Flackwell Heath and the residents who used them.
If you would like the long-standing local shops in your village to be featured in future articles please send your suggestions to me at deweymiked@aol.com or telephone 01494 755070.
Please include as much information about the shop as you can, together with photographs if possible.
These children are grouped on a roundabout in the newly-opened playground off Straight Bit, March 1953:
These children and young women in fancy dress are assembled at the old village hall in Chapel Rd, 1937:
Here we see some of the participants in the pageant “Merrie Flackwell” which was staged in the grounds of Sedgmoor House, June 1953:
The building of Swains Market, here still under construction, dwarfs the village butcher’s shop of T R Whiteman, on the corner of Heath End Rd and Swains Lane, 1961:
The village shop and Post Office, which also had the first petrol pump to be installed in the village, of Jennings Bros in Common Rd, 1940s:
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