Kettering, Silver Street c.1950
Photo ref:
K13018
More about this scene
The only set of traffic lights in Kettering coped with a trickle of traffic. Silver Street was a place for refreshment; the ornate façade of the Rising Sun is on the right near the corner of Montagu Street, with a cluster of cafés like the Hollywood Restaurant and London Grill. Chalkley's (right), the drapers, had a handsome shop sign in large silver letters on a shiny black background. At one point there were ten Chalkley shops in the area until the call-up in the Second World War resulted in a loss of staff - and they dwindled to this one shop.
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