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Trevor Edwards | all galleries >> Sheppey Pictures and Postcards >> Sheerness, Town > Hippodrome Buildings

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Jon Sowell		18-May-2016 15:40
My Great Great Grandfather, stage name Dan Thomas, performed in music hall here in the week commencing 31st July 1905.

Graham		05-Aug-2013 00:58
I'm pushing my memory here, but I used to go to school with a boy called Jonathan Fryer. I have a dim memory that it may have been his father that ran this shop in the mid sixties.

Graham		15-Jan-2010 09:53
I guess it was a night in Sheerness that inspired Charles Dickens to write some of his finest works!

Jean Redford		01-Oct-2009 20:11
I think this site is wonderful. It brings back so many memories. I was born in Alma Road,Went to rose Street school, then Broadway, As a child I can remember when I was very young sitting on top of the bay window in broad street watching the parade of soldiers sailors and airmen marching as the war was or may be just begun. around 1938/9 there was two blacksmiths in that road. One nearly opposite where I use to live. When I was 13years My father being in the Navy we went out to Malta for two years, just after the war 1950. The Duke of Edinburgh attended a concert that my brother and sister & I were in. Called 'PEANUTS'. My dancing teacher was Iris Thomas. A wonderful dancer herself and teacher. Anyone remember her?

Graham		06-Mar-2009 23:41
It was certainly a tobacconist and sweet shop in the 50s and 60s

Colin Walker		27-Dec-2008 19:28
I have been told by family members that my Great Grandmother (Adela Back) worked in this shop in 1916 as Manageress and the shop was called "The Little Wonder" it was a Tobacconist and Sweet Shop, can anybody confirm this for me please. Many Thanks Colin Walker

Trevor Edwards		14-Nov-2005 21:31
I think I remember this as a pet shop too. Does this mean I'm old?

Roger Betts		14-Nov-2005 20:56
When I was a youngster the shop on the corner was a pet shop and high on that wall was a blue metal plate which read "Literary Institute" I'm sure I read somewhere that Charles Dickens appeared there reading portions from his books and I think the Victoria Working Mens Club was originted in those buildings before the club house was built.