Tag: Market Hill

  • The evacuee boarding above the ironmonger shop …

    An idyllic childhood Peter Woods recalls his time as an evacuee, staying in a flat above Woodrow’s ironmonger, overlooking Market Hill, in the 1940s … “Our ‘front room’ looked out onto the market square and in one corner of this room stood a Morrison shelter.  This had a flat top with a cage like construction underneath.  When the…