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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
I think they went long before the gardens were laid out. One of the families who lived in the long row on the other side were Everetts, who had a mobile fruit business and later a shop up by the Clock Garage
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I remember Ernie and his van coming down Owen Street in the fifties. He wore thick black framed glasses and a little trilby hat. The shop was what had been Thornbers chemists on the corner of Whalley Road and Knowlmere Street. My cousin used to work there and I spent many a happy hour behind the counter in the pharmacy looking at all the lotions and potions. There were several other rooms behind the shop that weren't used but Ernie opened them all up when he opened his little supermarket. I didn't know the family lived in Union street.