Glemsford Pictures

A collection of old postcards of past Glemsford

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To get pictures of a size suitable for printing or close inspection click on the picture or the accompanying text. Please remember that we are very much on the lookout for pictures of old Glemsford in order to make a comprehensive collection here.
The photograhs themselves are scanned in sufficient quality to provide an A4 photograph is a quality that is almost indistinguishable from the original

The Angel Inn in Egremont Street, Mrs Smith in the foreground	Broadway Fair Green	Duffs Hill, from the Crown Hotel.. William Goodchild, who owned several farms, is the man on the horse.	Bullingham's Butchers Shop	The terrace, at Egremont Street built in around 1875, photographed in 1890
Monks Hall, at the bottom of Church Hill, c 1900 when three tenements	Gothic cottages in New Street. The cottages are still there but sadly, their gothic windows are no longer there	The Sweet Shop	The Greyhound inn around 1890	Monks Hall, when it was three tenements
The Old Rectory at Glemsford	Cottages at Tye Green	Some of the fine weavers houses in Egremont street, dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth century The photograph dates from pre-motorcar days. Although the buildings are there, the view is blighted by parked cars	An outing on the Charabang, grossly overloaded. The occupants had to get out and push in order to get up steep hills.	The Post Office
Egremont Street, The view from the Cock towards the Angel. The shop on the right was a Bootmakers belonging to Chinnery	Chequers Lane	The Old Plough Public house	Glemsford Railway station, in 1901	Glemsford Water Tower
St Mary's church, taken in about 1910, showing the pond which has now gone.		A more recent view of Glemsford Church	Billie Whitelaw's cottage, just outside Glemsford	The view down Bells Lane from Churchgate (the word 'Gate' is a viking word for a street)
Goulds Horsehair factory, which made violin bows around 1950	Glemsford school	St Mary's church, around 1900	Skates Hill farmhouse, taken in 1906	Glemsford's Methodist chapel
Bells lane, looking from ChurchGate	This mill was built in 1824 by Alexander Duff. There was a waterwheel and a steam engine. Most of the factory was demolished in 1960	'The old mill, Glemsford'	Scotchford Bridge, over the Glem to Hartest and Stansted.	Ted Hartley's wheelwrights shop. It was customary for them to use the green to store their wood and work-in-progress.
	Schoolgirls from Glemsford Board School, taken in around 1920	A domestic science lesson at the school	Bradnam's old post office at Glemsford (now a private house called 'cobewbs')	Long's grocery and Drapers, with Maxim's Sweet shop on Hunts Hill
A picture postcard of Glamsford. A handwritten note on the back says 'just a not to tell you that Glemsford is still hear.'	The centre-piece of a picture postcard of Glemsford.	Hunts Hill		The ladies of the Flax Factory
A view of Glemsford from the Crown Hotel before the building of spring meadow	Clarke's butcher's van at the Broadway	The Shepherds Cottage, Fernhill. The cottage burned down in the 1930s	Ted Hartley's Dad outside the Plough Inn at Tye Green	Tye Green showing the watertower and the 'restored' Peverells, as well as the end of Hartley's cottage without the workshop
Peverells on Tye Green, with its' characteristic crooked roof, was a picturesque part of Tye Green. The timber in the foreground was destined for the Wheelwrights shop	Bellingham's sweet shop	The Hartley family group photographed in front of the Wheelwrights cottage, in around 1865	Debenham's team of decorators outside Boxtead Hall	Brown's coach
	The Shepherds Cottage in victorian times. The garden is full of fruit trees and bushes.	Peace celebrations in July 1919	The Three Turns hotel was built opposite the Station, in anticipation of housing development along the Cavendish road that never happened. It did good business for many years	Building a stack near Glemsford
Mowing with a horse-drawn mowing machine, probably at Boxtead Hall	A horse and cart, with a baler in the background looking like an ancient helicopter
A school photograph on the lawn around the back		Mrs Hartley's brother		The Methodist chapel
	The view from Tye Green	W.J. Cuttings' Grocers shop in egremont Street	Another Charabang outing (can anyone identify it?)	Yet another Charabang outing (can anyone identify it?)
Mr Grimwood baking bread in a field	The Terrace at Hunts Hill, taken around 1880	Brook Street Glemsford. These cottages were built by Alex Duff for silk workers around 1850	The Hartleys' cottage showing the workshop at the site. The chestnut tree has long gone.	and still another Charabang outing (can anyone identify it?)
Yet one more Charabang outing (can anyone identify it?)	The Top of Brook street showing part of the old silk factory where umbrella silk was woven by hand	Frank Hartley on his pride and joy	Ladies from Tomkins Hair Factory around 1900	Mr Goodchild rides into town (Egremont street) in 1905, past A.E. Clarke's Grocery Shop
The Duke of Kent opens the new WI Hall in Brook Street in 1937	Coronation carnival float		Monks Hall after its renovation	The Crown Hotel. Possibly the coach is driven by David Ward
The water tower had to be painted every three years with an aluminium paint to stop corrosion. It made the water taste so bad that the villagers were forced to get water from the brrok as of old	A patriotic youngster, posing for a photograph near the church	the terrace at Fair Green, showing the council houses in the distance	The view toward the Crown Hotel	Miss Pettit at Tye Green
	The Board School, which was built in 1874, taken some time in the late 19th century	The Board school before the adjacent houses were built.	The celebration for the Widows of Glemsford at Byford's farm	The Broadway
	one of Byford's Furniture removal carts	Fair Green, in the days when it was a separate hamlet.	Glemsford Football team 1930, 1931	Tye Green in a photograph of around 1910, whth the photographers' daughter in the foreground
The old nonconformist chapel in Egremont street	Glemsford Silk Mills	The last passenger train leaves Glemsford Station	The station, showing plenty of goods wagons. Glemsford station was close to Cavendish Station but the former tended to specialise in goods whereas the latter was better suited to livestock.	At the Mill, Glemsford
Tye green, before the building of the Water Tower. Note the timber being stored on the edge of the green.	The rectory	The 'new' Glemsford Post Office at Fair green	Old weavers cottages in Glemsford, now demolished	Glemsford Board School
Potash Hall, on Skates Hill	Potash Hall, on Skates Hill