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No.1 Battersea Rise was for
a long time a bakers |
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Actually not a Battersea
Rise address , No. 1 or 2 Leathwaite Rd - Was Dr.
Samuel's surgery in the 1950s |
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In the 1950s Maison Rose
was already at No.26 - Ladies upstairs and a men's
barbers on the ground floor - The mirrors were surrounded
by tasteful displays of Brillcream and contraceptives -
"Something for the weekend, Sir?" At No. 24 was
Shrimpton's picture-framers and artists materials and No.
22 was a wet-fishmongers" |
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View down from the corner
of Webb's Road. A Lollypop man or ladie was on duty here
when we crossed to go doiwn Webb's Road to Belleville
school Link to Belleville
school website
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A view from just a little
further down the Rise |
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No. 48 - Was Budden's
greengrocers and then, probably in the late 1950s became
Conrad Weinberg's opticians |
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No.50 A corn dealer's about
1900 and then from about 1912 to 1969 H J Whites, trading
as first an ironmongers, then a radio and then an
electrical shop until 1969. Since then a sucession of
eateries |
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View down the Rise from No.
48 |
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In the 1950s this was David
Greggs grocers - in those days they still sold butter
patted into blocks and wrapped while you waited |
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View up the Rise from No.50 |
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View up from about No.48 or
46 |
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In the 1950's the last shop
in this row was Pat's Pantry. I think it was a tea-rooms
but I don't think I ever saw anyone go in |
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.This was Edward's
Furniture Galleries |
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The shops to the North of
Edwards No. 1 to 35 |
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The United Reformed Church
at the Eastern limit of Battersea Rise |
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No. 2 Battersea Rise. I
seem to recall that this shop sold motorcar batteries and
electrics in the 1950s |
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View west from No.5 |
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Corner Eccles Road &
Palma Cresent off Battersea Rise |
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Eccles Road off Battersea
rise |
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Hafer Road, at the far end
is the former David Gregg's shop in Battersea Rise |
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Hafer Road, at the far end
is the former David Gregg's shop in Battersea Rise |
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No. 50 Battersea Rise from
Hafer Road |
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No. 64 Battersea Rise. In
the 1950s this was a dry cleaners |
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.The set back building was
an auction rooms in the 1950s. One of the shops further
down was Falmer's (possible wrong spelling?) a
delicatessen (Yes, in those days Battersea Rise was a
place for good food) |
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This was the Temperance
Billiard's Hall - place of manu mis-spent youths |
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The auction rooms again |
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On the left the Thomas
Memorial Church of the Nazarene, founded by Welsh
businessman David Thomas as the Holiness Mission in 1907,
union took place with the Church of the Nazarene in 1955,
the former Temperance Billiard Hall is next door on the
right
For history of the Church of the Nazarene and Holiness
Missions see this web-site |
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as above |
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View up the Rise from the
traffic lights |
