Beddington, The Plough Inn 1952

Photo ref: B50013

I remember these shops so well from my childhood. The first on the left was a newsagent the next a baker at the other end of the Broadway was the post office. My brothers,my sister and I passed them every school day on our way to Highview School up Plough Lane. I especially recall that in 1952 most of the shops had stuck stamps of King George on their windows; some they had edged with black ink as a mark of respect ...see more

This photo is looking towards the 1890 view of the snuff mills and the end of Bridges Lane. The footpath on the right connected to Beddington Lane and was our route to the park as children. The wall on the right was pock marked with scoured out dents created by twisting pennies or half pennies into the old brickwork something that could be seen all the way to the park particularly in the Tudor wall around Carew Manor ...see more

This view from Plough Lane bridge was a daily sight for me and my 2 brothers and sister as we walked or later cycled home to Beddington from Highview school. [Another of Friths postcard shots]. The primary school was beyond the secondary school in the that shot. At the Beddington end of Plough Lane after hurriedly passing the cemetery --always haunted in our imaginations, was The Broadway [subject of yet more ...see more

When I was a child in the 1940s, this sports field belonged to the Post Office. Occasionally there would be a horse in residence and this is where I had my first and only ride on such an animal. The stadium on the left caught fire one night and, it all being wood, burnt down to the ground. The area immediately sandwiched in between the railway fence and the railway line was my father's lineside allotment for ...see more