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Ram Yard (MoC)Michael Bower Air Raid! pub. 1986 was an eye witness to the bombing by a Ju88A on 27th July 1942.
Gone first was the ‘Blue Barn’ Restaurant, an aged two storey building in Ram Yard removed by a 250 kg HE.
The suggestion of demolishing this narrow thoroughfare was made as far back at 1900. W. wrote in the CDN 19.11.1900: I refer to the buildings situated between Round Church Street on the one side and Ram Yard, looking into Park Street on the other. Here is a collection of bricks and wood in the shape of miserable cottages, bar the way to what might be a worthy continuation of Trinity and St John’s Streets to park Street, bringing into touch one of the busiest parts of the town. It is only a matter of a few hundred pounds to buy these cottages and I am sure that were the owners approached they would have sufficient patriotism to let their property go for a consideration.
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1913:
North Side
Here is Park Street
Lincolne and Son’s and Holden’s Stables
Campkin’s Stores
10. Frederick Sam Riggs, University billiard rooms
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13a. H Harvey, workshops
13b. S Fulcher, cabinet maker, undertaker
W J Ison, cycle store rooms
A W Barker, French polisher and upholsterer
13. Alfred H Wilson, compositor
14. Barber and Co, printers
15. Mrs Werrey, The Ram Inn
16. Bros. Denson, tailor and robe maker
J H Priest, picture dealer
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1917:
Thomas Percy Mayes: Private 285083, 1st/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Killed in action 13 August 1917. Husband of husband of Louisa Rebecca Mayes, of 12A, Ram Yard, Bridge St.
Ram Yard, 1926 (MoC74/57)
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Ram Yard, 1937, looking towards Bridge Street (photo J Baldwin)
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Ram Lane was finally demolished in 1961 to provide access to the new Park Street car park that opened in October 1963.
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