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Originally Posted by Alan J.
It's not where the chemist is now but a little further to wards Windsor Tce, it is now converted into a house called West Percy House. John Mole had it after Whittle and he made the original conversion. For a while it was a greengrocers shop, a hair dressers and one or two other things.
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I remember that building near the crest of the hill next to the railway line. Well I suppose it's still there but as you say modified a lot over the years. I remember it as a 'junk shop', owned by Mrs Gordon? (is that correct or am I getting mixed up?) I think she lived at the Salt Pans. Her son Frankie was a fitter at Whittle pit. Got into a bad accident when he was struck in the head with a steel rope - the drift hauler rope. He was never the same. Lived Edwin Street. Been dead a few years now.