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Horse Fair pre WW I outside the Wheat Sheaf inn

  • BCA - 2022.3414
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  • 2022

Horse Fair pre WW I outside the Wheat Sheaf inn. Boys are collecting horse manure for vegetable gardens. Note the windows are quite different in what is now the HSBC bank and the butchers. The Wheat Sheaf became the Post Office about 1971 and became a private house in 2010 when the post office moved to the Town Hall and it became a private house.

Nik Stanbridge

Horse fair, south end Church View

  • BCA - 2022.3421
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  • 2022

Horse fair with these animals at the south end of Church View. Notice that the ladies also came out to see the horses making it a spectacle and event for all to enjoy.

Nik Stanbridge

Horse fair outside the Wheat Sheaf on Bridge Street

  • BCA - 2022.3429
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  • 1911

The Horse Fair in Bridge Street looking east. At one time, it was one of the larger horse fairs in the country. Boys with barrows collected the horse dung for sale. The Wheatsheaf became the post office in 1972 and a private house in 2010 when the post office moved to the middle room of the Town Hall. The three semi-circular windows in the first floor of was the HSBC bank (in 2014) and Patrick Strainge butchers have been altered at some point to look like their neighbouring upstairs windows.

Nik Stanbridge

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