Christmas week of 1984
(E305) Customers queuing outside Lloyds Bank at 9.30 in the morning.
(E306) Midland Bank in Fore St.
(E307) Boots in Fore St.
(E310) Fore St in the rain, Trowbridge Rotary Christmas collection in the background.
(E311) Seesaw in Trowbridge Park.
(E315) Someone walking down Roundstone St with Christmas shopping.
(E316) Roundabout on the new Relief Road.
(E319) A driver stops to help a traveller who has ‘thumbed’ a lift.
(E321) Quarterway Avenue, or Pepperacre Avenue.
(E323) The Prospect, think this was an old people’s home, and some new houses were put up in the grounds.
(E326) Kenton Drive, off the Hilperton Rd.
(E329) Outside St John the Evangalist Church on Frome Rd the A361.
(E332) Lloyds bank carpark. The Watertower for Ushers in the background.
(E334) Bowyers factory in the background.
(E338) Holy Trinity church, which was the town garrison church, with a parade of recently pollarded trees.
(E358) Trowbridge Park
(E361) Trowbridge Park on a cold December morning.
(E363) Which Mill was this, with the KAM engineering workshop and J&P service station for motor cars?
I recall Noel Knee telling me they owned it, but no one wanted to rent it. However, it was listed and they had to pay for the buildings insurance. Noel did not have a lot of sympathy for some listed buildings. I think it generates some revenue now from the mobile phone masts on the roof.
Steve Lovering writes – E363 Ashton Mill owned by Palmer & Mckay. The last mill to be built in Trowbridge. I think closed in 1969?
(E364) The artificial lake created on the River Biss as part of the new Inner Relief Road, with Peter Black factory in the background.
I recall being on the Town Council when we agreed Planning Consent for their factory. It was listed as a One Storey Building, we didn’t realise it was 30ft high.
(E367)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way
And leaves the world to darkness and to me
(Thomas Gray Elegy on a Country Churchyard
(E370) Knees department store in Castle St. The Salvation Army citidal on the right in the background.
(E372) My good friend Richard Stratford ARICS, looking out of the window of Stratfords Estate Agents in Fore St.
(E377) Local branch of Lloyds Bank in Fore St. Next door you can see John’s the Butchers. He was closed down the following year after the shop failed a hygiene check up.
(E374) A last look for 1984 down Wicker Hill as the year draws to a close.
What memories do you have of Trowbridge in 1984?
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