Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 905342)

In the 1940s there was a fruit, veg and fish shop on the corner opposite the new Tesco near Tinker brook.

I was at junior school with Jack Duckworth whose mum owned it. He always stank of fish - a shame really - he was a bonny lad with short dark curly hair.

There was another such shop at the bottom of Fielding Lane which is now a house (not the one featured on TV recently)

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 905342)

In the 1940s there was a fruit, veg and fish shop on the corner opposite the new Tesco near Tinker brook.

I was at junior school with Jack Duckworth whose mum owned it. He always stank of fish - a shame really - he was a bonny lad with short dark curly hair.

There was another such shop at the bottom of Fielding Lane which is now a house (not the one featured on TV recently)

Originally Posted by Bee (Post 931714)

Marg, what was the shop (now house) at the bottom of Fielding Lane when it closed?. What I mean what kind of shop was it? :hidewall: :hidewall:/

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 905345)

There were quite a few in those days Margaret, Macandrews (Brian who's mum owned the shop was a mate of Eric in Canada) near the town hall, another just bellow the post offices as was in those days (can't think of the name, then there was Nellie Barns, right opposite St Paul's school, next door to Mrs riley's herbalist, the good old days

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 931747)

On the 'curving' corner was a grocers, and next to it was a bakers.
On the corner opposite the takeaway was fish fruit and veg, and a red telephone box.
The takeaway was a hardware store - pans, tools, paraffin etc.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 283037)

The shop on the other corner (Buy-the-House) was Reeder's fruit & veg shop for forty years, so that's good news if it's true.