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Pauline Hatch, Serena Hunt , Shops, High Street 1940s

Minnie Flint’s – I can remember that as a butcher’s shop. It had great big windows and they used to push them up, and there was the meat on a marble slab.  Mr Haward’ s fish shop was  next door. When I was about three, I used to go across and ask for ‘dish for dabbing’ instead of ‘fish for crabbing’.   For years afterwards whenever I went in for fish, he used to say to me, ‘Do you want some dish for dabbing?’
 Pauline Harwood nee Hatch 1930

Pinings Corner, High Street

Pinings Corner, High Street


I called Mr. Haward ‘Uncle Len’.   One of my cats used to go down the road every day at noon and sit on the wall opposite his shop and Len would give him a piece of fish. Len said he could set his watch on the cat’s arrival. Serena Dias de Deus nee Hunt b 1939

Pat Burt, Shops: High Street 1930s

Haward’s fish shop was on the corner – Pinings.  Because there were no fridges, the ice for the fish shop was brought by horse and cart and delivered in the back entrance. One day the horse dropped dead, don’t you remember? In the entrance to the lane, the horse died.  It was a shock.
The butcher’s next door was Minnie Flint’s.  Flint and Fryer were the same butcher.  Ablitts was further down the High Street. Pat B

Kellys Directory Yarmouth 39 listing residents, shops and services A -M

Kellys Directory Yarmouth 39  Minnie Flint: Butcher

 

urt nee Adams b 1929

Serena Hunt : Swimming 1940s, 1950s

In the summer we could get into a bathing costume at home, and run down the road and down the lane between Len Haward’s fish shop and The Towers and go to Pier Shore to swim.

Yarmouth shores High Tide

Yarmouth shores High Tide

 We would jump off the Royal Solent Yacht Club’s stone jetty, which did not add to our popularity at that time ! Serena Dias de Deus nee Hunt