|
|
||
|
Another view, looking east, along West Road taken after the houses on the south side were built. A note on the back of the card reads: “1914 I should say.” The gas lamp post could be one my grandfather made; he made the first one for Loftus, …….. made the gas lamp burners.”
Known to most as the Mars Inn and originally known as Marsh farm house (owing to the soft ground in the area); this house was owned by Mr Eaton of Loftus Brick Works, where bricks were made from about 1830 to 1870. Bryan Richardson tells us: ”The original name of this house was Marsingill House. I researched this around 1980 when I was landlord of the Mars Inn and the sign was changed from Mars the Roman god to Mars the planet and people argued as to which it should be. Neither as it turned out.” Image courtesy of Mrs Sakelaropoulos and thanks to Bryan Richardson for that update.
Yes this is the way it used to look not at all like the building we see today, but when the silent movies were something new this is where people went to see them. There were live acts too between the movies, I remember my mother telling me of the ’scratching shed’ a place where they waited to get into the Empire, makes the mind boggle as to what the scratching shed was, anybody out there enlighten me? Please! Image courtesy of the David Linton Collection and Maureen Hogan (from a Loftus Town Crier Calendar issue). |
||
Recent Comments