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The man to the left here is George Bees, a fine old Clevedonian who served on a great many committees and on the Town Council. He was responsible for getting the Jubilee Cottages, built in 1887, decorated for the Silver Jubilee of 1977. They stood in Old Street next to the Cottage Hospital, and their foundation stone is built into the wall there.

The carnival float here in Griffin Road represents Hale's Cake Factory, which formerly stood on the Clerical Medical site in East Clevedon Triangle/Tickenham Road. Left to right we have: Edie Coles; Kath Hollyman; Dood Reed; Phyl Ainsworth and John Hare.

This building was converted from the smithy in Old Street into a workshop for five Cabinet Makers. The smithy dated back to the 1600s. The Dispensary at the Health Centre stands on the site.

16 Old Street, decorated, with thousands of hand made paper roses to raise money for the cottage hospital during the carnival in the 1930s.

Frank Knight waits patiently with his sack truck as the engine of the Light Railway crosses the Triangle.

This is the Great Western Railway station from the mileage yard, with the Conservative Club in Kenn Road to the right in the background. The photo dates from 1950s.
Pre 1930
Glencairn', Hill Road (now named Highdale Avenue) in the early 1900's. Pictured are my great, great grandmother and father and two of my cousins. Ann Baxter

Glencairn', Hill Road (now named Highdale Avenue) in the early 1900's. Pictured are my great, great grandmother and father and two of my cousins. Ann Baxter

Glencairn', Hill Road (now named Highdale Avenue) in the early 1900's. Pictured are my great, great grandmother and father and two of my cousins. Ann Baxter

Christ Church was built in Highdale Road in 1838 and consecrated in 1839. By this time there were enough people living on the Hill to merit a second church, as the Old Church, St Andrew's, was quite remote from the village and this area.

The cars made by Richard Stephens from 1897 onwards. They were remarkable for their day, capable of 50mph, and several were used as small omnibuses and taxis in the Clevedon and Portishead area.

This is Clevedon Bowling Club at the junction of Chapel Hill and Prince's Road in about 1910. Here, World Champion bowler David Bryant learned his stuff, and can still be seen there.

This is the Triangle before the 1920s, when the cottage beyond the clock tower was demolished. The cottage had been part of a farm. The clock tower stands more or less on the site of the Chipping Cross, where markets were held, the Clevedon's stocks were at the southern part of the triangle near WH Smith's.

23 Old Street is where William Thackeray waited in the 1850s to join a funeral procession coming from Clevedon Court to the Old Church at West End. This site has the original shop front, one of the oldest in the town.

In Station Road quite a crowd gathered to see the foundation stone of the Men's Meeting Room laid early in the 1900s. It now forms part of the Baptist Chapel.

At 3 Old street Mr Lovell had his boot and shoe shop, one of many in the town in the 1920s. The shop is now a brightly coloured tattoo parlour, with a large, plate glass window.

Hollyman family built 1 Old Street in the late 1840s as a butcher shop - it is in the early 2000s that it has changed business and become the Bodega. This photo shows the Christmas display when butcher Gould was at the shop.

At 3 Old Church Road, Mr Edwards had his flourishing business in the age of the horse, selling corn feed.

This is Crease's Farm, or Elton Farm, which stood on the site of the present Library in Old Church road. A school was built on the site in 1889, and it was converted to a library in the late 1990s. The farm itself dated back to the late 1500s.

At 1 Chapel Hill, Robbie Robertson had his electrical shop. In fact the first electrical shop, opened by the Blackmore family, was established before mains electricity came to the town, when some large, private houses had their own generators.