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More Photos of Old Stoke Golding (2) (Best viewed in Internet Explorer) I am indebted to Gordon & Edwina Bradbury and Denis Cash for providing these wonderful photographs of old Stoke Golding. They would like to thank everyone who has contributed photos over the years and especially Gordon Webster who initiated the project, putting the collection onto slides. Jump to: People of the village
Hand bell ringers - early 1900s Outside the George and Dragon Gordon Bradbury is peeping at the back
Brownies and 2 Girl Guide helpers A 1930's charabanc trip to the seaside c1960s
Harry Towers - cobbler Mr Martin - seated One of the Hunter brothers Mr and Mrs Rose by Sandstone House Club members in present Club car park The Geary family outside The George & Dragon
Outside the old Infants' School Mr Broughton, Headteacher - late 1930s
Taylor family Queen Elizabeth 2nd's Coronation Committee
Concert parties of the 40s Who remembers the concert parties of the 40s? We used to put on at least two concerts a year, in what is now the Baxter Hall. These consisted of sketches, one act plays and monologues. There were pianists, soloists, a tap dancer or two and an accordionist. Who can forget the shadowboxing match between ‘Battling Bill’ and the ‘Wykin Tiger’? These were Bill Geary, landlord of the George & Dragon and Percy Mayne from Wykin, who used cycle to the George & Dragon for a drink. The accompanist was Maud Martin of Station Road, who also sang with her sister. Another soloist was Eileen French who took part in the plays. Other actors were John Rossiter, Reg Jones, Florrie Hodges, Sheila Clifford and the Rowley brothers from Dadlington. We went out ‘en tout’ to the far-flung reaches of Sutton Cheney, Cadeby & Shenton. Some of us travelled by Mr Threadkill’s taxi. He would take us to our venues and then go home, returning for us later. One night, however, this didn’t happen. He took us as usual and then went home to bed and forgot about us. We were left stranded on a bitterly cold night in Shenton. Audiences at the concerts in Stoke Golding were so large that the youngest members had to sit on top of the school cupboards so everyone could fit in. What good times they were. Rita Mason Reprinted from The Stoker (Sept 2005)
John Martin and Canon William Quinney
Hosiery workers outside what became Croxall's Factory, Crown Hill Wykin Lane
Wykin Lane Main Street
Main Street
Junction of Main Street and Hinckley Road (formerly Carpet Lane) - 'Chip-shop Corner'
The old Vicarage on Wykin Lane ... and its front garden The Birches, High Street
The Three Horseshoes ... and Mr Mee Stoke Golding Club
The George and Dragon... and Mr Geary Aerial view of the Club
Cash Supply Stores, Main Street - owned by the Faux family Clifford's Grocery Shop, High Street
The Co-op, Station Road Station Road
Croade's Shop next to what is now Middle Stores Police House, Pine Close
The old Junior School - now the Baxter Hall... and cottages next to it The old Grammar School
Laburnum Cottage, High Street The Blacksmith's Shop and Cottage before development
Walton & Long Ltd - Champion Beast 1976 Bernard Long, Reg Henson, Pete Walton, John Barwell
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