Dunstable Yesteryear – Parading past Keep’s Corner.
When this photograph of the Dunstable Girls Life Brigade parade was shot in 1963, the only trace of traffic was a scooter passing the old Woolworth’s building on High Street South in Dunstable.
It’s reminiscent of the days when the vista from Dunstable Crossroads was dominated by a series of massive posters extolling the benefits of Guinness.
But equally known was the drapery shop of J.H. Korn, Mr Herschkorn’s company name, which had stood at the end of Middle Row for many decades.
Frederick Keep built a newsagent’s shop in 1924, which became even more well-known.
Older Dunstablians still refer to this area of town as “Keep’s Corner”. Mr Keep moved to Dunstable from Newbury in 1904 to work for Waterlow’s printing company.
He entered the army during World War I and participated at the battles of the Somme and Ypres, where he was wounded by shrapnel.
He was a lay preacher at Dunstable’s Victoria Street Methodist Church and was elected to the Dunstable Council in 1933. He served as Mayor of Dunstable from 1937 to 1940.
Yesteryear is compiled by John Buckledee, chairman of Dunstable and District Local History Society.
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