{"id":22621,"date":"2012-11-23T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22621"},"modified":"2013-07-10T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T15:57:47","slug":"frank-letchworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22621","title":{"rendered":"Frank Letchford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"John Humphries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=20833\">John Humphries<\/a>\u00a0(Nov 2012)<\/p>\n<p>In July 2008, Mrs Joyce Letchford kindly brought in 15 pictures from the early 1900s, 1970s and 1980s to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?page_id=2\">Bohemia Village Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband Frank W Letchford (photo below) used to run a bookshop at\u00a0116,Bohemia Road, St Leonards, Sussex, TN37 6RL. We are, needless to say, extremely grateful to Joyce for her thoughtful contribution to our archives. The photo (below) shows Frank at typewriter holding <em>Wilderness Man<\/em>\u00a0by Lovat Dickson. As wikipedia gives 1974 as publication date of this book, the photo of Frank was presumably taken sometime after 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The Letchford pictures are:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Alexandra Park 1970 \u2013 1972\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22647\"><strong>Alexandra Park<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View of Park Road, 1972.<\/li>\n<li>By the lakes, August 1970.<\/li>\n<li>By the lakes. May 1971.<\/li>\n<li>Bluebell woods, Park Road, May 1972.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Bohemia Bookshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22675\"><strong>Bohemia Bookshop<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0116 Bohemia Road.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1970. Before new roof and new upstairs windows.<\/li>\n<li>1973. Frank Letchford outside 116. Resident since Oct 1958. In early 1900s 116 was a public house \u2018Hearts of Oak\u2019? 3. August 1977. Aubrey Budd and Frank Letchford. It was mail-order shop. Frank did the lettering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bohemia Road 1905 and 1974\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22693\">Bohemia Road<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 1905. Greetings card manufactured by Edward Southey Photo Restoration, Beckenham, BR3 4HR. Produced and distributed by the BMD Group, Hastings, TN34 2EG.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Sat 28 Sept 1974. 1300 hours.Bohemia Road closes down for Saturday lunch. Co-op Mini became an accountants. Griegs closed. 20 years later cars nose to tail on Saturday mornings. Half the shops empty or rooms different by 1993.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Butler\u2019s Emporium 1971\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22705\"><strong>Butler&#8217;s Emporium<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>Bohemia Road. Jan 1971. Mrs Butler and her sister at the side (Salisbury Road).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Pubs of Bohemia \u2013 The Hearts of Oak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=19649\"><strong>Hearts of Oak<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Beer house. 116,Bohemia Road. Mr Tapsell (white coat) before going on an outing in a coach and four owned by Skinners. 1911.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Brief History of Bohemia \u2013 part 6 -Tower Buildings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=12687\"><strong>Tower Buildings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scott James Glass, Lower South Road, St Leonards. 1982.<\/li>\n<li>Scott James Glass, Lower South Road, 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\" http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22211\">Tower Pub<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>At the corner of Tower Road &amp; London Road. Here was a tollgate in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century. Photo 1975.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22639\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Frank-Letchford-1974+-Letchworth.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22639\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22639\" title=\"Frank Letchford of Bohemia Books sometime after 1974\" alt=\"Frank Letchford of Bohemia Books sometime after 1974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Frank-Letchford-1974+-Letchworth-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Frank-Letchford-1974+-Letchworth-202x300.jpg 202w, http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Frank-Letchford-1974+-Letchworth-691x1024.jpg 691w, http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Frank-Letchford-1974+-Letchworth.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Letchford of Bohemia Books sometime after 1974<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0John Humphries\u00a0(Nov 2012) In July 2008, Mrs Joyce Letchford kindly brought in 15 pictures from the early 1900s, 1970s and 1980s to the Bohemia Village Voice. She and her husband Frank W Letchford (photo below) used to run a bookshop&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=22621\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[157,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22621"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27237,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621\/revisions\/27237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}