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103-7 High Street 1944

COPYRIGHT ENGLISH HERITAGE 103-107 High Street, from the Rotherfold. July 1944. Trivett Saddlery & Sports Goods, fish & chips at 105 High Street - prior to WW2 this shop had been all Saddlery & Sports but due to dwindling trade then the arrival of American GI's who all wanted to have the traditional fish & chips Mr Trivett started selling them and they are still sold today at No.105. Mr Trivett divided the premises in 1934 and ran both the saddlery and the fish & chip shop. The saddlery closed in 1944 when Mr Trivett died. Kinsmans at 107 High Street. Bull Inn on right. Rotherfold cottages on left now taken down. Ref CD 3:B44 2843 Some of these photographs were taken for EH by Margaret Tomlinson (1905-1997) as a buildings record photographer. In 1942 she began fieldwork for NBR in Devon, Cornwall & Dorset continuing to work during the war years. Later, she took a post as an investigator with the Ministry of Town & Country Planning compiling a list of historic buildings.