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I cannot tell you eneogh how I enjoyed these pictures. I grew up??? in Gloucester Jean M. Aldridge 18 Midland rd, Widden st School & Central school for girls. I am now 68yrs old, I died the day I came to usa. It was not my idea. My brother Tony feels the same way. I worked for the Records Offices. I have tried to make the best of it. Now I am starting over again in Memphis tn. I need to get out and meet people, and I will. There is no place like England. My love to you all. Jean PS it does take money just to come there, and ?? I am not asking for any,and life goes on, hopefully.
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Welcome Jean and thank you for your lovely comment about this site.
You’ll be pleased to know that Midland Rd is still here as is your old house. Only the railway line has gone.
Your site is marvellous and brings back memories of my childhood,i am now 62 but until the age of 6 lived in kingsholm road by STEVENSONS JAM FACTORY and even after all these years still remember that sweet smell so unlike the WESTGATE smell wich on a hot summers day with the wind in the wrong direction was horrendous
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My grandmother and grandfather where the DAVIS’S who owned a grocery shop in ALVIN ST,just above CROMWELLS chip shop .
The book CLAPHAM has a story about my grandmother standing over the author as he drinks a frozen bottle of pop so she could give him his penny for returning the bottle and shut up shop.
One thing that has always stuck in my mind is that as a child playing marbles that every front garden in ALVIN st was surrounded by the stumps of railings and i remember being told that they had been cut off so the metal could be used in the war to make tanks
I also recall ORPINS the coal mechants and their horse drawn coal carts
. A father and son fruit merchants and their horse drawn cart ,in the summer they would put a straw hat on the horse and tie a bandana around his neck
These recollections may be a figmant of my imagination but if some one could veryfy them that would be great. Mellbuffin
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Not a figment of your imagination Mellbuffin as I remember the WestgateSt smell also. What a pong! If you travel around Gloucester as I do, you can still see walls where the old iron fence was cut off during the war. BTW we are the same age.
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I think a number of us still has that smell in our nostrils. You could smell it as far as the Spa on a good day.
A fascinating site, loved the old photographs! In the 50/60s, I used to visit (I was an infant then) an aunt, Bessie Rowe, who lived at 89 Park Rd, opposite the Midland Railway line. I can remember looking out from her window and watching the trains opposite. I returned yesterday, and tried to work out which house would have been 89. I counted along from the last house in Park Rd (67) before it changed to Trier Way. It appeared 89 would have been one of the smaller houses at the far end. However, I distinctly remember it being one of the larger houses with steps to the front door, and a basement.
If you can enlighten me with any information, I would be most grateful. Thank you. Nigel Rowe@
How odd! All I can tell you at the moment, Nigel, is that 89, Park Rd, Gloucester was the fifth house down from Arthur St in the 50/60s. I wonder if changes were made when Trier Way was constructed?