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Shopping memories.

This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground.  On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth.  My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations.  My mother's car is parked on the road just behind her.  The shop to the side is Perham Cox, which was a family grocer,  which also delivered groceries to our house on a weekly basis.  The other lady is Mrs Jean Salmon who was also married to a local farmer. The way shopping was done in those days involved parking at the top of Bridge Street and moving the car down the hill as each shop was visited.  This is now a pedestrian area.  The only shiop I ...read more here
A memory of Worksop contributed by Mrs H Levack

Samuel Page - Umbrella maker.

This photo shows my great grandfather's shop, nearly opposite the one owned by Jesse Boot. The shop has (on the left hand side of the photo) the name S. Page (Samuel Page) just above the wooden statue of Jonas Hanway holding an umbrella and the name of the shop was Hanway House; Samuel Page being an Umbrella Manufacturer and Dealer in Ladies and Gentlemen's waterproofs and all kinds of Travelling Requisites. Jonas Hanway brought the umbrella to this country from China and Japan. He was laughed at for carrying such an item as it was considered effeminate. Samuel Page was a noted umbrella maker because of the excellent quality of the silk that he used in ...read more here
A memory of Nottingham contributed by J Hammond

Matthews Opticians

To the left of this photo, the first shop you can see was Reg Matthews opticians. You can just make out the entrance and the window above which is a V shape. As a trainee dispensing optician working there around 1971, I used to sit at this window and look down on Bridge St. Happy memories. The business was later taken over by G. Gilbert (who'd previously been a partner) and he's still there today to the best of my knowledge.
Deville's chemist was the shop next door - the one with the canopy blind.
A memory of Worksop contributed by Sue Houghton

Family History

My parents married in this church on 10th December 1960.
I was christened here in 1962. My father's ashes were scattered in the churchyard in 1993. To my family this is a special place.
A memory of Rolleston contributed by julie morgan