HIGH STREET / BRIDGE STREET

Does anyone remember the little grocery shop that used to be down the left hand side of the Bridge Inn, cannot remember the ladies name, but know we would knock on the door if we needed food, before going to sea on a Sunday, as she was allowed to open up and serve the trawlers.

I remember the shop. I went to school with the owner's son. His name was Edwin Warns. He has posted some comments on Ournewhaven. Where is he now?

There was a sweet shop there as well, somewhere near the red car in the last photo, which also opened on Sundays.

The shop next to the Crown Inn was a greengrocers called Ivy's. She was a lovely lady. Both my elder brothers and I worked for her as delivery boys on a Saturday morning. It was a thriving business delivering fruit and veg to both private and local businesses.

The shop with the "Tudor" top was a newsagent's, and probably also sold sweets. It looks as though it may have closed down in this picture (if I remember rightly, the owner wasn't particularly welcoming). Just before it, and set back was a 'working men's" club. After the newsagent's, is the Old Mill Cafe, then part of the Co-op food store. Beyond that, the RN(V)R Drill Hall, which had an impressive polished wooden floor, and a small naval gun just inside the rear doors. At the front, a couple of large trees housed a noisy rookery (or could have been crows).

Does anyone remember Bank House?  My father was born there and his father was a bank manager in the Twenties?