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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 9/25/2004 1:28:30 PM by Azzabuv

Bygone Shop Names
replied on: 9/25/2004 12:31:17 PM

You,ve reeled a few remembered names in there, Frano.

Before King's motor cycles and between the time of the Hepworth's the tailor's, wasn't there also a motor cycle business named 'Humphreys' there?

Ah yes, the Maypole. I wish i had a pound for every time i scrubbed that tiled floor during my training for the grocery business which came to nil. (BIG pay down the collieries - they said).

The two ruined shop buildings which stood across from Brown's/Playfoot and Gray's paper shop during the late 1940s. Was this wartime bomb damage?

Also the three terraced white houses across from the bottom of Mount St; (joined on to Dr. Donnigan's large house) the one next to Morley's Derby Road frontage, where they say the German women were interned in during the War, was this also bomb damage. I remember the heap of rubble completely blocking Morley's side entrance from the floor to the ceiling of the covered jitty.

The Second-Hand shop across the road from Saxton's chip-shop, next to the large pub yard - i never saw anyone ever use it, but each time i passed it over a few years, there was always a man's aged grizzled deep-lined face peering out of the corner of the window near the door. Any idea who this may have been?

Anyway, thanks for the shop names. Some where remembered and some were not.
Azzabuv.

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