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Does anyone remember the corner shop at Darwin Street? We lived there for a couple of years from 1951. Thor Hammer had a factory at the end by the Park and Chandos Road.
We had a wonderful street party for our Queen's Coronation.
 
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Does anyone remember the corner shop at Darwin Street? We lived there for a couple of years from 1951. Thor Hammer had a factory at the end by the Park and Chandos Road.
We had a wonderful street party for our Queen's Coronation.
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Hi yes i remember the corner store on Darwin st if it was the same one it was number 11. There was a lampost outside that my brother Alan and me Gerald used to climb.My mom Olive owned the shop and he mother Rachel and her ran it mid fiftys. Opposite was a factory that melted down ww2 aircraft and made silver foil and stamped metal banjos. Every 5th of november mom would put all the fireworks not sold out in the communal back yard for the neibors big bonfire. Remember the brick wash house .Anyone with pics of the area including the shop or factory i would love to see them thanks gerry
 
Some Darwin Street photos in Highgate.

Reeces Cycles PLC close to Alcester Street.



Highgate International Mini Market - used to be The Peacock. On the corner with Dymoke Street.



Samuel Heath & Sons PLC on the corner of Stanhope Street.

 
Does anyone know the name of the Public House that was number 46 Darwin Street in the 1881 Census?

Edit: 1858/B. Grove, Darwin Tavern, 46 Darwin street/../../Dix Directory, Possibly this name continued through to 1881?
 
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gerry poulton said:
Hi yes i remember the corner store on Darwin st if it was the same one it was number 11. There was a lampost outside that my brother Alan and me Gerald used to climb.My mom Olive owned the shop and he mother Rachel and her ran it mid fiftys. Opposite was a factory that melted down ww2 aircraft and made silver foil and stamped metal banjos. Every 5th of november mom would put all the fireworks not sold out in the communal back yard for the neibors big bonfire. Remember the brick wash house .Anyone with pics of the area including the shop or factory i would love to see them thanks gerry
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Would anyone have and record of the thrupp family on darwin street???
 
Doing some bits around my family history. My grandad was 'given a pub called the Royal Oak on Lower Darwin Street as it was (believe it was an M&B pub) before he was moved in 1933 to manage the Roebuck Inn on Upper Darwin Street.
 
This is the shop of Frederick Charles Grey in Darwin Street taken sometime between the wars. .. He also owned a reclamation yard. In 1932-1937 Kellys, his yard is at 56,57 Darwin Street, which is on the corner of Highgate Park Terrace. This shop is also on a corner. but if it was the same corner the Darwin Street sign on the photograph would have been on the other wall of the corner. The other side of the corner to Highgate Park Terrace is listed as a shop. but not as being run by a Gray. It could have been owned by Charles but run by another, or perhaps run by him pre 1932. Or perhaps the shop was not near the reclamation yard

Shop of frederick charles gray. Darwin street.jpg
 
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