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Village Store, Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, 1944

Village Store, Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, 1944
Copyright: National Monuments Record

Village Store, Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, 1944

Village Store, Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, 1944

  

The village store, Foots Cray High Street.

The sign can be seen on the right for the Red Lion public house. This has been said to be an establishment of some notoriety, built in 1823.

It is also said that the inventor Thomas Edison once stayed there whilst visiting Sir John Pender at nearby Footscray Place.

The second and third images are detail from the first.

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Images of Foots Cray
 
Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, c. 1900
Foots Cray High Street,
Foots Cray, c. 1900
 
Foots Cray High Street, Foots Cray, c. 1925
Foots Cray High Street,
Foots Cray, c. 1925
 
Ruxley Corner, Foots Cray, c. 1930
Ruxley Corner,
Foots Cray, c. 1930
 
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