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THE GOLDEN YEARS
The area is a place full of happy memories.
A Reunion group was set up for people who used to live in the area so they can meet up once a year, spend time with old
friends and neighbours and talk about the "Golden Years" in a place which still remains very close
to their hearts.
Our grateful thanks to the Reunion Group for allowing us to share their photographs on this website.
| A Street Party around 1945 |
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| Friends and Neighbours united at the news - War is over |
Above - Local Residents are united in celebration and hold a Street party to mark the end of World War
II. This photo appears to have been taken from an upstairs window at 20, Melville Street, and shows the side of
the Warren Inn which once stood on the corner of Warren Hill and Melville Street. The pub no longer exists. The building is
now used as flats. There used to be three pubs in the area. The Warren Inn, Coburg Inn and Melville Inn. Only the Melville
Inn exists today and has been renamed The Clipper.
| Melville Lane around 1950 |
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| A compulsary purchase order had been placed on these cottages |
Above - By the 1950's these cottages had already stood for a hundred years, but were no longer able to
meet the housing standards of a post war era and had fallen in to disrepair. Torquay Town Council made a compulsory
purchase order for them. Shortly after this photo was taken, they were demolished and today the site is part of
Melville Lane Car Park. On the right side of the photograph Strawberry Cottage and April Cottage are recognisable.
Below - Not everyone was happy about leaving their old Melville Lane home. The last Occupant to go and resist the Purchase
Order lived at No. 24 and you can see their window box outside.
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