The lower picture is New Road as I remember it in the 1950s and early 60s. Out of shot on the left was a wine shop presided over by the always-immaculate “Cadey” Wright, who was the proud owner of an Austin Swallow – an Austin 7 with a body built by the company which eventually became Jaguar. I bought a Dawes touring bike from Beales in 1958. Next to Molsons pharmacy was Tubby Greenall’s furniture shop. The shop on the corner of Broad Street was Chester’s grocers – anyone remember the hilarious ads he used to place in the Lincs Free Press? It was Sam Kingston of the auctioneers and land agents on the right of the picture who was one of the men who taught be to shoot at the Pinchbeck Rifle Club. He kept a boat on the Glen at Surfleet. The vessel he called the Jerrycan, because it had been converted from a German ship’s steel lifeboat. He took a crowd of us “Down Below” one day, and we came back with freshly-caught shrimps. Happy days…..
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The lower picture is New Road as I remember it in the 1950s and early 60s. Out of shot on the left was a wine shop presided over by the always-immaculate “Cadey” Wright, who was the proud owner of an Austin Swallow – an Austin 7 with a body built by the company which eventually became Jaguar. I bought a Dawes touring bike from Beales in 1958. Next to Molsons pharmacy was Tubby Greenall’s furniture shop. The shop on the corner of Broad Street was Chester’s grocers – anyone remember the hilarious ads he used to place in the Lincs Free Press? It was Sam Kingston of the auctioneers and land agents on the right of the picture who was one of the men who taught be to shoot at the Pinchbeck Rifle Club. He kept a boat on the Glen at Surfleet. The vessel he called the Jerrycan, because it had been converted from a German ship’s steel lifeboat. He took a crowd of us “Down Below” one day, and we came back with freshly-caught shrimps. Happy days…..
Thanks for those wonderful memories. Please keep them coming.
Regards
Geoff