(B450) Mr Terry Hall, science teacher from Clarendon School, up on Caen Hill with a group of 6th formers to study the night sky. Mr Hall had also written a science book for schools.
(B461) The sky at night
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(B472) Town Bridge crossing the River Biss by the Blind House
(B474) Cyclist on Wicker Hill. The grand 18th century buildings at the back of Ushers on the left. Built by the wool merchants. Trowbridge was famous for its felt, used in hats and on billiard tables.
(B476) Mollie Lloyd foster carer trying out a bicycle for size at the Cycle Shop in Castle St.
(B477) Cycle shop
(B478) Mechanic at the cycle shop assembling a bicycle.
(B480) Man watering flowers outside Taylor and Son in Fore St Church Walk. Taylor and Son was a shop of cloths and clothes. When you bought something the shop assistant would write down the price on a piece of paper and you took that the cashier. The premises later became a Travel Agent.
(B485) Rodney House, Roundstone St. The Trowbridge premises of solicitors Bishop, Longbotham and Bagnall. They also had offices in Bradford on Avon and Swindon. A firm established by Terry Bishop and 2 friends.
(B486) A horse in Fore St, now pedestrianised. Note the Radio Rentals shop, where you could rent a radio, or a television set or even a washing machine and pay a weekly rent.
Yvonne says – Week 30 (B486) Phillip Newbury.
(B487) Another view of Fore St and the horse. Bowers had a shop there and the bank was the Midland. Later to become HSBC.
(B488) Ice cream man on Saturday with a freezer on a tricycle. Note the price of an ice cream in 1984.
(B489) The happy ice cream man.
What are your memories of Trowbridge in 1984?
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