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Old 10-05-2020, 08:39   #28
taddy
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Re: Changing face of Abbey Street

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Originally Posted by Frank T View Post
Shops I remember on Abbey St a chippy Marsdens? next to a bank or building society, an electricians (can`t remember the name but one of my mates was courting the younger daughter) George Taylor barber. Hothersalls chemist, next to a paper shop. A former pub used as a tyre fitters (I recall a fitter being killed in there when a tractor tyre exploded) a sweet shop set back from the road opposite Oak St owned by the wife of Frank Kithener the editor of the Observer also a chiropodist near to little Blackburn Rd.
The Fitter who was killed there was "Mick Bartram", he was in the same year as me at Woodnook School in the late 50s/Early 60s.
Yours, Taddy
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