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I WROTE about Buckland’s a few months ago. But this image sent to me by direct descendant Richard Alford has – to my knowledge – never appeared before. So I hope readers may forgive a return to the same subject. In this picture, we have moved on 30 years from the one shown before. The occasion for the patriotic decorations being the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth that took place on May 12, 1937. Two lamps still hang over the window displays of each set of premises, but the large elaborate gas lamps with ‘Buckland’ written on the shades are gone, to be replaced by what may be more modern electric lamps instead. ....
This postcard shows the upper High Street premises of Lander Buckland and his son, Lander Stafford Buckland, around 1905. These cards were used by the firm for advertising and correspondence, and the reverse, signed by L Buckland, reads ‘My traveller will call on Monday afternoon Dec 3rd when your favours will oblige’ and addressed to Mrs Riddle of 22 Collingbourne Ducis. In those days, an important part of any shop’s trade was reaching out to all the villages in the district. Motor traffic was still in its infancy and the favoured means of transport was by bicycle, often itself carrying advertising beneath the cross-bar. ....