Preparing for Christmas
(E210) A peek inside the Toy Shop.
(E212) A lady customer at the toy shop. Barbie Doll or Action Man?
(E213) A shop assistant at the Toy Shop.
(E216) Shopkeeper at the Toy Shop.
The chap in photo E216 on week 49 is Clive Brown, he owned and ran the toy shop, he’s now retired and his son now runs it.
Here is a more recent photo of him on the Wiltshire Times website.
Our thanks to Warren for this information.
(E218) Castle Street with Bob Missen Toy shop on the right, plenty of car parking out the front.
(E219) In Knees department store, ground floor dressed for Christmas.
(E220) In Trowbridge Park on a Monday morning in December.
(E221) Children’s play area Trowbridge Park. One solitary roundabout. There used to be a slide that stood 15ft high, but the Council took it down, not safe for the young children of today.
(E222) Three young ladies in their lunch hour pause for a photo in the park.
(E223) Hilperton Rd by the Fire Station, early evening.
(E225) Hilperton Road. The big property on the right backs onto Bellefield Crescent.
(E226) Court St car park with Wiltshire County Hall in the background.
(E229) Longfield Roundabout, leading into Mortimer St. Thanks to Gill Cooper for identifying this location.
(E233) Another view of Longfield Roundabout as work on the the Inner Relief Rd was coming to an end. Thanks to Gill Cooper for identifying this location.
(E230) You can just make out the terrace of houses in Bythesea Road opposite County Hall, that were pulled down to make room for a car park.
What memories do you have of Trowbridge in 1984?
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Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre,
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