Redevelopment of Bullock and Driffill site
High Street - Barkestone Lane
By David Middleton
The aerial photograph shows the site when occupied in the 1950's by the building contractor W. J. Roberts. Bullock and Driffill took over the site in the late 1960s. Before expansion of the site there were cottages on the left hand side of Barkestone Lane. Mr. Dennis Jackson remembers that in the 1930s Mr. Norris's blacksmith shop was on the corner of High Street and Barkstone Lane.
W.J.Roberts builders yard - 1960's
Photograph from a private collection
Pay Day. Outside W. J. Roberts 20th October 1958
From the collection of Mr. William Roberts. Copyright Ted Rayson
W. J. Robert's Workforce, High Street Bottesford 20th October 1958
From the collection of Mr. William Roberts. Copyright Ted Rayson
Barkestone Lane woodworking shops on site of cottages
Photograph from the collection of Jill and Nev Bagnall
The Demolition of Bullock and Driffill captured by Peggy Topps, 2nd May 1998
Going
Photograph by Peggy Topps
Going
Photograph by Peggy Topps
Gone
Photograph by Peggy Topps
Site clearance
Photograph from the collection of Jill and Nev Bagnall
Barkestone Lane housing on the former Bullock & Driffill site
Photograph from the collection of Jill and Nev Bagnall