Allendale Square - Circa 1959
Dorothy Lancaster leading a ride. At that time her riding school operated out of the King’s Head stables; it moved to Pods Bank in Thornley Gate in the early 1960s.
The Allendale Co-op Drapery opened in 1937 – formerly the site of the Fosters’ house ‘West View’. The garage behind was used for storing vehicles.
Parked are the Whitfield Co-op van – driver, Jack Warwick, the bank manager’s car, the cobbler’s car, Percy Lindsay’s car.
If of interest – the three horses in the foreground (from left to right) are Susan, Bambi and Curlew. The bright-bay with the distinctive blaze in the rear (far left) is Royal.
10 February 2021. My mother, Iris Horncastle’s, 90th birthday.
Royal was not a grey, I remember him well – he was brown and a very uncomfortable pony to ride! I think this photograph may be later than 1945, possibly the late 1950s?
Caroline Innes Prentice (nee Horncastle)
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