(B227) Machinist at Ivica clothes design and manufacture, Duke St
(B228) Steam ironing at Ivica
(B229) Sewing up at Ivica
(B230) Skillful sewing up at Ivica
(B232) Manager at Cousins camera repair building in The Halve.
B232 Mr Jackson. Jimmy or Mr J. A Londoner who moved to Trowbridge & joined Cousins in 1948. During the war he piloted a Swordfish & dropped torpedoes on the German U Boats ! Sadly no longer with us. [Stephen Lovering]
(B235) Jack Brennan, Editor of The Wiltshire Times, Duke St. The building housed the reception for taking advertisements, upstairs the reporters’ room and the editor, and next door was the printing press.
(B237) Charity shop for Action research for the crippled child.
(B238) Man from the SEB. The Southern Electricity Board. In those many services like gas and electricity and the Post Office were government departments. That all came to an end in Mrs Thatcher’s revolution of deregulation, and they became privatised.
(B239) Another man from the SEB.
(B240) Inside the dentist’s surgery.
(B241) Lady in a shop that sold trinkets.
(B243) More trinkets for sale.
Judi says – Week 23 (B243) I think that’s Jill Knight of Knight’s Emporium. Judi Gardiner
(B244) Nearly new shop
(B247) John Day dental repair workshop, by the station car park.
(B248) Outside Bowyers staff shop.
(B249) Currys Fore St. Where you could buy a spin dryer for £99.
(B250) John Kirk’s clothes shop with uniforms for school children.
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