[Alan J.]

Was in the shop which is now the card shop just below Roland the butchers and Penrose's was the shop just below the Tavern which is at the moment part of Lawrences. Penrose was a radio and television shop with a barbers in the back room, I forgot this when I claimed Smailes and Ned Archbold were the only barbers of that time. Incidently the premises which are now the Tavern were a funiture shop run by a family named Fagg and the TSB building was a toy shop and lending library run by a man called Hughes who later had the Dock PH. The solicitors office next to the TSB was the Midland bank and Jeanette's the ladies hairdressers was next before Billy Stokoe's sweety shop , now Chapmans. The legendary Miss Muriel Usher had a chemists in what is now Northcut hairdressers the Blue Kettle milk bar was next followed by Fenty Taylor's drapery and Charlton's dairy, now JK Crafts.