This view of the Free Bridge at Jackfield was e-mailed in by our regular contributor Paul France – who thinks he may well be one of the group in the foreground.
Paul says: “This one’s from the 1950s, I think, judging by the Commer Van crossing the bridge. I’m almost certain I’m among the group on the river bank.
“On the left hand side you can just make out the back of Mrs Evans’ shop which she used to open at nights. She and her husband Jim worked at Craven Dunnill’s next to Jackfield School.
“The shop was later run by Mrs Poole and then her son Norman. The cottage on the right was one of two or three properties and occupied by the Williams and Johnsons.”
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thank you s/star and david trumper for some lovely memomories. oh to have the mock tudor crown hotel back!
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No wonder Southam’s beer was so thin and yucky. But, we still kept drinking it in the ‘Fishes’. perhaps that is where the Pub got its name too!
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This picture makes me cry. I was a young lad who thought it so ‘posh’ to sit, having a pint in an armchair in the George, then pop down to the Raven, round the corner.
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