Post by Les on Mar 19, 2016 8:25:59 GMT
Earl Street was called Bullock Lane .most the shops were Butchers.
Walking from Week Street into Earl Street there was a fishmonger on the left; Bradford’s if my memory serves me right. The shop was open fronted with the counters all tiled. The assistants wore long rubber aprons over white jackets and weighing scales hung down at the front of the shop ready to weigh out your choice in fish. At the end of the day everything was hosed down into the street, counters, floors everything.
Opposite stood a small toyshop, extremely narrow that went back and back. The toys lay out on trestle tables, assistants stood behind the tables ready to take your money or to pull even more toys out from a backroom if you couldn’t see what you wanted. I remember buying allsorts of toy animals to make up a farmyard that my brother and I were making.
Before the Fishmongers was Paynes Green Grocers.maybe was in week Street
Going down from the Fishmongers a few shops then Bett's the Butcher's late on a Saturday they would auction of the meat they had left. Then the Cinema The Regal known a the Bug Hutch.Rose yard,Honer's An Antique Shop, a kios for sweets and cigarettes,The Hazlitte Theatre,The Market buildings,from the Market buildings down to Pudding lane all I can think of is The Entrance to The Star Hotel Car Park and Andrew Boultons House that was a gentelmans club(Andrew Boulton signed a pation the exicute King Charled 2nd)below Pudding Lane,Corpus Christi was a religious Guild then Grammer school then Fremlins offices and stables .
Do you remember Gifford Boyd, the photographic store? In the sixties, we developed our own films and this was the perfect shop to buy from; the assistants were very knowledgeable about all aspects of photography and more than able to assist the likes of me. Gifford Boyd was a well-known photographer in his time; he also owned and ran a photographic shop in Hastings, this other shop continued after the Earl Street shop closed.
On the Right hand side Hepworths Tailors address could have been week Street then the toy shop,a few shops then The Druids pub may have been the anchint Druids a dry cleaners,two little shops 1 was cafe.Market Street,The Market House pub,was called the coal Barge inn,now Earls ,2 or 3 shops one a solicitors ,then Featherstones then an other shop or house,Museum street, A house could have been offices then Fremlins brewery
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Walking from Week Street into Earl Street there was a fishmonger on the left; Bradford’s if my memory serves me right. The shop was open fronted with the counters all tiled. The assistants wore long rubber aprons over white jackets and weighing scales hung down at the front of the shop ready to weigh out your choice in fish. At the end of the day everything was hosed down into the street, counters, floors everything.
Opposite stood a small toyshop, extremely narrow that went back and back. The toys lay out on trestle tables, assistants stood behind the tables ready to take your money or to pull even more toys out from a backroom if you couldn’t see what you wanted. I remember buying allsorts of toy animals to make up a farmyard that my brother and I were making.
Before the Fishmongers was Paynes Green Grocers.maybe was in week Street
Going down from the Fishmongers a few shops then Bett's the Butcher's late on a Saturday they would auction of the meat they had left. Then the Cinema The Regal known a the Bug Hutch.Rose yard,Honer's An Antique Shop, a kios for sweets and cigarettes,The Hazlitte Theatre,The Market buildings,from the Market buildings down to Pudding lane all I can think of is The Entrance to The Star Hotel Car Park and Andrew Boultons House that was a gentelmans club(Andrew Boulton signed a pation the exicute King Charled 2nd)below Pudding Lane,Corpus Christi was a religious Guild then Grammer school then Fremlins offices and stables .
Do you remember Gifford Boyd, the photographic store? In the sixties, we developed our own films and this was the perfect shop to buy from; the assistants were very knowledgeable about all aspects of photography and more than able to assist the likes of me. Gifford Boyd was a well-known photographer in his time; he also owned and ran a photographic shop in Hastings, this other shop continued after the Earl Street shop closed.
On the Right hand side Hepworths Tailors address could have been week Street then the toy shop,a few shops then The Druids pub may have been the anchint Druids a dry cleaners,two little shops 1 was cafe.Market Street,The Market House pub,was called the coal Barge inn,now Earls ,2 or 3 shops one a solicitors ,then Featherstones then an other shop or house,Museum street, A house could have been offices then Fremlins brewery
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