St Thomas's Street, 10,504

Gates to Bliss's orchard on the right. The r.h. cottage was tenanted as the Blisses lived in the farmhouse (Old School House, in 2018 Orchard House) in Hopcraft Lane (then called Council Street). Jack Bliss's mother, Frances, in l.h. doorway. milk, butter and eggs could be bought there (from a postcard lent by Mrs Alice Sykes. Her husband Bertram is the boy on the right of the line of children).