Photos

HL Bodiam Seed Merchants Rainham Kent (Simes Ltd) 1920

This photo of HL Bodiam Seed Merchants shop in Rainham Kent was Simes Ltd in the 1970s. Photo was in Action Forum - May 1975 Number 69

Rainham Co-operative Coop Store 1975

This photo of Rainham Co-operative Store was taken in 1975 from the church tower. The store was located opposite St Margaret's Church and demolished in 1997 to make way for the new Medical Centre. The store front clearly shows the date of 1928 on the front facade. To the right of the photo you can just see the old Rainham Sorting Office that is now the McCarthy & Stone retirement home.

Photos of the demolition in 1997 are here Rainham High Street Coop Co-operative Store Demolition

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Photo of Woodside, Wigmore, Gillingham in 1946

This photo of child with old style pram was taken in the garden on 28 Woodside Wigmore Kent in the summer of 1946 so within a year of the Second World War ending. My grandparents had built the house 7 years earlier, you can see the receipt for the construction here. Costs of Building in Woodside,Wigmore 1939

The bungalow opposite looks virtually unchanged in 2021!

photo of child with old style pram was taken in the garden on 28 Woodside Wigmore Kent in the summer of 1946

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Back to School 100 Years Ago

With the schools returning for the new School Year these pictures of Byron Road Infants' School taken in 1918 show how school life used to be 100 years ago.

The 2 photos show the same classroom but with group IVA (4A) and Group VI (6) so are probably taken 2 years apart. The pictures on the wall are slightly different although what looks like a painting of Humpty Dumpty is present in both.

The children in the IV A photo holding the board are Harold Hudson Light and Marion Grace Light. There are 24 children and 1 teacher showing.

Harold appears to be in the below photo to the left of the Humpty Dumpty picture standing against the wall at the back of the classroom. In this picture there are 48 children so is it 2 classes together or just much larger class sizes?

Subcategories

Decades - Old Photos Article Count: 9

Old photos by decade

Rainham People Article Count: 32

Rainham Roads Article Count: 25

Roads around the Rainham - old photos of how roads used to look in days gone by

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