The history portal for Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England
2009 was the first part of the High Street Photo project to record the shop fronts of every shop.
http://www.shorehambysea.com/street-photo-project/high-street/
Is the High Street a better place 10 years on? Anyone fancy doing the same for 2019?
As for 100 years ago, this then and now slider demonstrates the evolution of the West End.
Can’t see that this has been posted before but it’s a small part of a larger photo and one of my favourites for detail:-
Passer by exhaling smoke from his fag,
Impatient man in car (and, yes, it’s a Model T Ford) with noisy kids thinking ‘How much longer – is she buying the bloody place!’
Automobile Association bonnet badge (blimey, do you remember those!)
Lad with wheelbarrow imagining how pleased his Mum will be when he brings fresh horse manure for the garden back through the house.
Evidence of an itchy-bum outbreak in Shoreham (that’s lowered the tone a bit!)
A Walk to the Bridge and Back
A compilation of old postcards and photos from the 1890’s to 1930’s arranged in order to provide a visual representation of a walk through the High Street as it once was, across the old Norfolk Suspension Bridge and back.
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A rare and fascinating relic of Shoreham’s commercial past is this 1908 receipt book provided by Henry Ayling & Sons for their customers. Aylings were family grocers, drapers and furnishers at 54/56 High Street on the western corner with John Street.
Continue reading “Ayling Stores Order Book”