Trip to Folkestone 1926

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    We had a tallyman Hugh Wiley shop along Rochester used to call every Friday evening but I think this should be another topic we are far from the original Folkestone 

[castle261]

It`s a small world - I would not know when It closed as my brother & I were evacuated to Newington in 1939 - 7 miles away - to church Lane, on again
in the summer of 1940 - to South Wales. Does anyone remember the `Tallyman` he was a man like `Blundle`s` for bed linen - for so much a week.                                                     

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   johnfilmer the shop I remember was definitely on the right. I wouldn’t know yours as I wasn’t born until 1944 the year yours closed.

[castle261]

You are right smiler - she must have started the shop around 1935/6 - I would say - Half way between the steps & the top of Castle Road.
It was below the alley way at No 210 - that led to Gordon Road.

[johnfilmer]

My grandmother’s Castle Road shop was at 207, in the front room. They let the upstairs and lived next door at 205. It closed on her death in 1944. Definitely on the left on the way up.


I will do a piece on my family’s various little shops when life stops pestering me!

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    I remember in the 50s a shop in the front room of a house on Castle road. I think about 100 yards from the top on the right going up.

[castle261]

The shop I remember - was in Castle road - opposite the `steps` around - 1934 - Smitherman`s - I never shopped there - as a lady
opened a shop further up Castle Road on the other side - a Mrs. Doughty. I wrote about it on the old site. My mother sent me down
there, just before it opened - Mrs. Doughty only had a few tins on the bare shelves `We dont open until Saturday `few more goods
then` she said - I was sent back there - again - later -  It was in an ordinary house with very steep steps - as I remember.

[johnfilmer]

The back of this photo says "On the road to Folkestone June 1st 1926"
I think that I can identify my mother, aunt and grandmother. As my grandmother ran a shop at the time I wonder if this was a lady customer's day out from Castle Road/Luton Road?