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Nork Way – The Parade
The Nork Way Shopping Parade 1953.
The above postcard was sent to Switzerland by a German visitor to Nork in July 1953.
In the 1980s, while on holiday in Switzerland, Ralph White spotted and bought the card amongst others at a weekly market stall near Braunwald.
Today, the Fir Tree on the left has gone having been blown down in a gale 4 years ago. Also, many of the shops have also changed hands many time. The two shops to the right of the Telephone box in the picture are now the Indus Restaurant and the Seine Rigger Restaurant. There are also fewer cars none of which are parked on the shop forecourt.
Picture added on 21 February 2011 at 00:15
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This is a very evocative picture for me as the shop that 'made the corner'- just out of vision to the right - was an off licence run by the Casemore family and the son, Peter was at Nork School with me. I can remember shortly after the war, walking to Nork from Wilmot Way with the family (my sister was in a large pram so would have been 1946/7) and for the first time, being able to buy Smith's Crisps at this shop!
Added by Brian Nibbs on 28 February 2011
I spent my early childhood in Nork, from 1961 to 1965. The shops I remember the most on Nork Parade were the butchers (it had sawdust on the floor), the post office and the bakery. The bakery made the most wonderful cakes - four different marzipan fancies and delicious, dusty, meringues in the softest pastel pink, yellow, green and white, all sold on large wooden trays.
Added by Camilla Wonnacott on 03 November 2011
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