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'Station Square Flitwick'. Taken at the junction of the High Street with The Avenue, the view shows a row of shops. The shop on the right is a bakers with a man standing in the doorway and some boys with their bikes in front of the window. The middle shop has several advertising placards outside - the headlines refer to the death of General Booth, which provides the evidence for the date of August 1912. A young girl and a boy stand near the shop window; 'shop' has been handwritten underneath this building. A women is leaning out of the top window. To the left a young man and three boys stand by a hedge. Further buildings can be seen on the far left. No indication of publisher apart from 'A.P.C.O' in bottom right hand corner. Card bears a message but must have been posted in an envelope.

August 1912

From: 1912 To: 1912

Postcard carries the message 'Dear Gertie, Thought you would like P.C. for your album but thought you would like a letter from me as there is hardly any room to write on P.C.s. This is where I spent my holiday. aunties shop is where the woman is looking out of bedroom window. That is auntie Carrie and her two children are against the shop, Una'. [It has not been possible to positively identify 'Auntie Carrie' however the best suggestion so far, based on the 1911 census, is that this is the newsagents run by Arthur and Wilhelmina Maud Henrietta Hawtin. They had two children, a girl, Nellie, and a boy, Thomas, although the children in the picture look younger than the ages given on the census. The boys standing by the hedge may be sons of Charlotte Goddard. The bakers shop may be that of Frederick Bell, who is not listed on the 1911 census, but who is known to have a bakers on Station Square by 1914.]

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