Found two photo's on there of my Grandma, 'Madam Slade of Broadmead' She owned a milliner's shop, and another one of her, her husband, Charles Joseph Slade and their first born child William Charles Archibald, my Dad's eldest brother.
These where photo's that I had submitted to Movers, Moving Companies. a couple of years ago to add to their article they had about her, written by my uncle Richard's wife many years ago.
Lots of old phot's too of Lewins Mead (at the bottom of Christmas Steps). My Uncle 'Archie' had a Barbers shop there up intil he retired in the late 60's. I remember it was a very narrow cobbled street and extrememly dark at night...just like something out of a Dicken's book!
The upper floor of the fish and chip shop, opposite my Uncles Barber's shop, overhung the narrow street and you could almost touch it from my aunt & uncles bedroom window!
My cousin told me that when she was growing up there, that their cellar used to get flooded by the river which of course runs under the road in the old City Centre..which we could see from their front room window on the second floor.
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