West Street looking towards Market End (Detail). The last and most enlarged detail of the plate. An argument of Coggeshall people make their way down West Street. On the right is the cottage and shop (with a Lyons Cakes sign) now demolished, then the Cricketers, now closed and beyond it the warehouse on three floors which was demolished in the late 1920's to widen the road.
The garage on the left is under a teasel loft with access beneath to the JK Kings site, at one time its only entrance. The Garage began as a cycle shop owned by Mr Rudkin who lived at Orchard Cottages (originally Factory Cottages) with his wife Nina and children, Victor and Vera. In WW2 Victor joined the Royal Engineers and in 1942 landed in Singapore but was later captured and put to work on the infamous Burma Railway. He died in captivity on 19th January 1944, aged 24 years.
Incidentally, at the time that this photo was taken, the AA, founded in 1905, had 100,000 members, representing one in every three cars in the country.
Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd
Date: c1920
Ref: 43/21d2
The garage on the left is under a teasel loft with access beneath to the JK Kings site, at one time its only entrance. The Garage began as a cycle shop owned by Mr Rudkin who lived at Orchard Cottages (originally Factory Cottages) with his wife Nina and children, Victor and Vera. In WW2 Victor joined the Royal Engineers and in 1942 landed in Singapore but was later captured and put to work on the infamous Burma Railway. He died in captivity on 19th January 1944, aged 24 years.
Incidentally, at the time that this photo was taken, the AA, founded in 1905, had 100,000 members, representing one in every three cars in the country.
Photo Courtesy Douglas Judd
Date: c1920
Ref: 43/21d2
Also in: East & West St.
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Comments
By Elaine Jones: I was born in Coggeshall in 1960. Vera Rudkin was my maternal grandmother. I don't think she ever recovered from the loss of her brother, Victor.