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Saturday, October 5, 2024

Vintage Bourne End business advertisements.

 Here are a few more vintage ads from a circa early 1950s guide to Bourne End. It is from the collection of the late Michael Eagleton who kindly left it to me. 



Above, E R Spindler, Cookham Rd. Baker and confectioner. 


Louise the hairdresser, 5 Royalty Parade. The place to go for a manicure or a Marcel wave.


Above, S A Aldridge sound and vision specialist with a mobile radio repair service. Sales, installation and service for all makes of television. 




Above J Woodbridge & Son ironmongers, furnisher, and heating/sanitary/electrical engineer. Station Corner. 



Above, Child & James auctioneers, estate agents, surveyors  and valuers. The Parade. 




Above, Gray's tailors, general outfitters and boot and shoe specialists. Furlong Rd. 




Above, A H Fountain electrical engineer. Royalty Parade. 



Above, Richard Wilson landscape gardener and sports ground contractor. Wharf Lane. The man for anything from care of fashionable rock gardens to looking after a bowling green. 

Some more Bourne End Adverts here

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