Photos of Atherstone
Market Square, Atherstone, 1990s
Image courtesy of Friends of Atherstone Heritage
Market Square, Atherstone, 1990s
Photo courtesy of Friends of Atherstone Heritage
Regal Cinema, Atherstone
Photo courtesy of Friends of Atherstone Heritage
Silhouette fashions, Long Street, Atherstone
Photo courtesy of Friends of Atherstone Heritage
Post Office, Long Street, Atherstone
Photo courtesy of Friends of Atherstone Heritage
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My maiden name was Stafford and a youngster I remember being weighed on the platform scales in the doorway of Parkinsons chemist shop. Little did I know that I would go on to marry the grandson of the founder of the chemist shop. The Parkinson family came from Lincolnshire, one brother being a chemist and the farming branch going to Dairy Farm, Grendon.
Parkinson chemist shop was subsequently purchased by Alan Lloyd in his early days. Parkinson Chemist shop also dispensed medicine for animals and there are still letters remaining requesting perscription for worming for dogs etc.
The Salvation army had a wooden hut, stood on the corner of Grove Road. We used to twice on a Sunday, 10-11 and then 3-5. We used to have a summer and we went to Trentham Gardens, Sutton Park or Western Park for the day and the Salvation army used to pay for the bus to take us there. Every Christmas they used to do us a party. During the depression the Salvation army looked out for the poor in Atherstone and Mancetter.
When I was 10 years old which was 70 years ago I remember that the library was in Church Street by the telephone box. You had to walk a flight of creaky stairs. There was a strong smell of wood, furniture polish, dust and a paper smell. We had little white tickets and I think we were allowed two books.
The picture of Atherstone Post Office reminds me that I was one of the “mad” members of Atherstone Cycling Club, who met every Sunday morning at that spot, ready to burn the tarmac all over the Midlands. I was never at home on Sunday between 1948 and 1960, when I gave it up and joined Warwickshire Constabulary. The shop to the left on the photo was a cycle shop run by Albert Farmer.
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