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Postcard: Sutton high street, 1941

            Here’s another in my occasional series of old postcards – this time, a view of Sutton High Street, Surrey, dated 21 November 1941 on the reverse. As you can see, the high street was built on something of a hill, which was particularly felt by shoppers with their bags.

The view of the High Street is looking north, taken from the junction with Cheam Road and Carshalton Road. On the left is Lloyds Bank and, further down flying the flag, is Shinners department store, a local shopping landmark for decades – but now no more. Almost opposite, on the right, are the Municipal Offices of Sutton & Cheam Borough Council as it then was – and, nearer the camera where the blind is, is a Mac Fisheries wet fish shop, so much a part of our lives until 1979. In between, on both sides of the high street, are all manner of shops that people wanted, and used.

I knew Sutton very well; I lived in Banstead, a few miles to the south, and in my teens and twenties I worked in Sutton for ten years. This postcard was published by The Paragon, 112 High Street, Sutton, and is numbered 10503.

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Taken in: UK / England / Sutton (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2023

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