Recent Comments

Archives

Archives

Arlington Street, Loftus.

Another well photographed location, this view from a postcard included the information that the gentleman in the foreground was ‘Kind George’; so named as he was the Relieving Officer. Part of his duties included doling our parish relief. A road sweeper is busy in the gutter, hauling his barrow behind him; the billboard on the end of Springhead Terrace has long gone. The telephone pole jutting out onto the road (now where there is pavement) at the end of St Hilda’s Place, was the cause of many road accidents.

Image courtesy of Loftus Town Crier and Jean Wiggins (information confirming from Jean Wiggins “Loftus in Old Picture Postcards”).

Leave a Reply

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

  

  

  

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.