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This week’s pictures from the past
Friday 6th February 2009, 1:26PM GMT.
A road gang is at work in Montford Bridge, using a rather magnificent old steamroller. We don’t have the date – 1920s maybe? The picture was loaned by Mr Jim Kelsall, of Oswestry, who once had a craft centre in Montford Bridge. He says the little girl on the far right became Mrs Price – he does not know her maiden name – and the man is her father. They used to own a travelling shop, he says. On the print the building in the distance far right is marked as “the old toll house”, although we have digitally removed the words for publication.
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This weeks pictures from the past was of great interest to me. My mother and father were one of the first residence on the cuckoo oak estate. They moved there in 1963 when I was 5. The cuckoo oak estate was built before hills lane and I remember my mum buying fruit and vegetables from a van which came around each week from the local farm as the shops were not built. How times have changed look at this picture no diveways, no cars just gardens and paths. My mother still lives in the same house 40 years later.
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