Week 09 – 27th February to 4th March 1984

(A303) Elizabeth Shirley dance school Ballet class

(A304) Joy Bloomfield recalls – This is Hartford Street. My grandparents used to live there and Sid and I agree on the name. We both knew it well and it is still there but has been redeveloped as the relief road cuts through it now.

Philip Lucas writes – Photograph A304 – This is actually Harford Street, not Hartford Street, and I lived there for the first 18 years of my life at No29. The photograph is looking towards Ashton Street, and the building at the top left was Courtiers Builders & Undertakers, becoming the Driving Test Centre not long before we moved to Wyke Road.

(A305) Coffee morning at Trowbridge Uni ted church

(A306) Church volunteers

(A307) Volunteer church tea ladies

(A308) Trowbridge children’s play area Trowbridge Park

(A309) maker of garden pots

(A291) Browsing in WH Smiths

(A292) Wrestling with the water supply in Fore St

(A294) lunch at the Wimpy bar, Fore St

(A296) Staff at the Wimpy bar.

I remember the Wimpy and was a Wimpy girl myself, my very first part time job when I was 12! Of the four staff pictured second from right is Joyce (A296).

I used to work all day Saturday and from 4.30-6pm after school on a Monday and earned 12.5p [two shillings and sixpence] per hour in about 1972/3. I can still make a knickerbocker glory, a banana split and an ice cream float and flip burgers with the best of them, using reconstituted dried onions of course. Yummy!

Joy Bloomfield