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Originally Posted by Alan J.
This would be the one opposite the welfare which was demolished and where there are now some houses. The controversey may have been that it would have taken trade from the one at Barties Toon, this is presumably where the North Enders would have had to go to for their provisions prior to the new one coming on line.
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There were two stores at North Broomhill. One was on the main road through, opposite the Welfare, standing on the west of School Row and on the west end of Six Cottages.
At the north end of Stone Row, east end of Six Cottages, on the western side of the infamous water tower was the store known locally as The Wheelbarrow Store. It was also called 'The Beehive'.
Both stores have now been converted to housing and Six Cottages was demolished and houses and bungalows built there. I lived in No.4 until I was 14.(1954) If you walked out of the welfare gate, carried on eastwards you would come to 'The Beehive'.
The one tap for the street water supply was on the outside wall of our pantry. The earth closets, ash pit and coal houses were around a square, at the back of the 'North End' store-rather adjacent to a milk store pre-war!!!!