The north end of Redhill Street meets Albany Street where the butchers, barbers, tobacconist and café face the Cumberland Gate entrance to the park. The barber used to finish off his stock-in-trade pudding basin haircut with a dowsing of ghastly smelling brilliantine from a spray thingy.
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From the top of Gardner House, looking at the back of George Orlick's place, the new primary school playground can just be seen in top left of frame.
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Redhill Street, corner with Little Edward Street, the bag factory has gone now and George Orlick's meat wagons have possession. |
| These next three pictures form a sort of panorama taken in the late sixties.Not sure where I took the pics from but somehowI managed to get high up over what appears to be a new Mews built behind some new houses facing the bus stop where the numbers 3 & 53 used to stop. |
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You can stick these two pics together using the pair of phone boxes is right foreground as a reference point. The Walls Paint depot, by now Kelly Tyres is in the centre of this pic. Ascot dominates the background. Steward's (or was it Stewart's) Electrical Engineers' site is flattened; it used to include remnants of an old seamen's hospital - remember the crumbling portico by the bus stop? |
| Scanning around to the right you can see Jones's shop still open (he closed just before decimalisation came in '71). Nash Street has been cut off. Nash Concessionaires and the petrol garage have also gone by this time. The double pillar-box can still be seen (maybe it's still there now?) and in the background you can just see the playground has gone looking more like a builder's site. The old Victory Pub has been replaced with the new Victory Pub. |
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