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Lined with magnifecent elm trees it’s hard to believe this was once the Causeway.
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North Street’s old horse trough is now a flower container outside the Register Office
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Causeway in the early 1980s before Price Bailey’s building was erected at the corner of Dane Street.
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Former buildings of Hughes timberyard are still in use but destined to go when the area is redeveloped.
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Between 1901 and 1914 the town’s annual Whit Monday Horse Show took place beneath the Causeway’s elm trees.
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Badge of Merit discovered in a West Country antique shop.
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One of the most appalling ‘modern’ buildings ever erected in Bishop’s Stortford during the early 1970s was that used as offices by Pickfords at No 20/22 Causeway. When the firm moved from the town in the 1980s the premises was bought and thankfully transformed into the more fitting and rather elegant neo-Georgian style building pictured above.
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When King George V died in 1936, a platform was erected in the Causeway from which the Lord Lieutenant, accompanied by his officers and many town dignitaries, read the Proclamation to a large crowd.
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An open-air swimming pool was constructed in the Causeway in 1924, a gift of Mrs Tresham Gilbey in memory of her father, Sir John Barker.
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