Two Photos from Terrington St John

The cottages in the first photo below is from the 1920s. They are still standing but the one on the left containing the bakery of Thomas Aitkin is now deserted, the lean-to replaced. Aitkin was succeeded here in the trade by Fred Kitchen. The post office in the middle was run by Horace and Hilda Rush and the garage on the right by Frederick Thomas Ward, who had taken over from Walter Bligh. Today the site just outside this picture on the right is occupied by J and I Motor Engineers. Two houses along to the left the baker today is Jonathan Rose.

The photograph below shows the Blacksmith and Farrier George High. He was a man of enterprise who began in neighbouring Tilney St. Lawrence and served as farrier in St. John for several years. Later in life George became a bus driver after which he provided a delivery service and a small fleet of buses. George Clare, wheelwright and carpenter, worked nearby and this scene is outside the forge owned by his son Leslie. With George High here, holding the pony, is Ken Clare when St. John and St. Lawrence had many Clares and the time is the 1920s. Beyond the gate is the outbuilding belonging to the shop and post office also run by Horace Rush for a time. George High went back to Tilney St. Lawrence where he had a smallholding and an orchard, like many another hereabouts in the great days of Marshland fruit-growing. (Dr. A.W. Greer Collection)