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Post by Les on Dec 6, 2017 4:49:55 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well: Hello Phil, good to hear that someone remembered Bob Sharp's fish and chip shop on the corner of James Street/Wheeler Street. Wasn't aware that I was eating chips prepared by your goodself! I remember vividly the archway to get to your house where it opened out into a small courtyard. Do you or anyone else remember the sawmill down Bluett Street where on the run-up to Guy Fawkes night we used to go and get wood shavings to use on the bonfire to celebrate Guy Fawkes? And there used to be a transport company (also down in Bluett Street) called Reeves, I used to knock around with both the sons - Tommy and Martin - I think were their names(well it was a long time ago!) Like Steve Wood we came from the hostel at West Malling and mum found 2 rooms to rent at 36 Boxley Road (long-since demolished)to rent out. We stayed there for a number of years before my mum managed to get a house in Wheeler Street (No 150 - again long-since demolished)and that's where we used to just nip across the road to Bob fish and chip shop. Sad to see that the Royal George pub at the junction with County Road/Boxley Road is boarded up and possibly going to be flattened (like the Hare and Hounds just up the road) to make way for more empty flats ... is this what we call progress?
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Post by Les on Dec 6, 2017 4:51:32 GMT
The Hare and Hounds is still there .are you thinking of the Rose
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