(source : Paul West)
The start of High Street
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(source : Paul West)
Annabel Fashion Shop, High Street
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(source : Paul West)
Buildings unknown. Any offers ?
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(source : Paul West)
This 18th century building at the end of High Street was a barbers until 1966.
Priorians were unlikely to have visted this establishment, of course, because
they had their own (student) barbers—untrained volunteers who even cut the
hair of some of the priests. (A nerve-racking assignment, as you can imagine).
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(source : Paul West)
St Peter's Street, leading to The Bunch of Grapes which dates back to the 16th century.
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(source : Paul West)
The High Street, facing St George's Square in the distance.
To the left, the blue-fronted shop is Tashinga! (African craft work and curios etc).
Adjacent, is Lloyds Pharmacy (once a public house)and on the right is Moss Chemist,
which has been a pharmacy since 1830.
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(source : Paul West)
Bath Travel, High Street —heading towards Cross Street on the left.
This travel agent's address is "The Old Bakery, High Street, BW".
Does the building seem familiar —or were we always supplied
with bread for our trips to Galleydown ?
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(source : Paul West)
This is Oddfellows Hall in the High Street—once a dance hall, cinema,
and bingo hall—is now a busy Christian centre and coffee shop.
Did you ever visit it when it was a cinema —'officially' or otherwise ?
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(source : Paul West)
Lloyds TSB, on the corner of St George's Square and High Street.
Note : Bank House in Bank Street is part of banking history:
" Mr Gunner, a member of the Bishop's Waltham Society since it started 15 years ago, is a member of the banking family who set up a private bank in Bishop's Waltham in 1809 called the Bishop's Waltham and Hampshire Bank.
One of the founders was William Gunner, who lived in St Peter's Street. The bank remained in Bank Street from its inception until 1953 when it was absorbed by Barclays. It was the last operating private bank in England. From the start until closure nearly 150 years later, the bank issued its own Bishop's Waltham bank notes. They were legal until the bank closed down in 1953 ."
Taken from 'This is Hampshire.net' ( http:www.archive.thisishampshire.net/2000/7/18/84341.html ) |
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