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The shop on this side of the hall used to belong to my Auntie..she used to take in refugees ..that's going back a bit..it was a milliners then.

I can remember going to the SCHOLL shop to visit the chiropodist, which was either next door or next door but one to the bookshop. Is the Scholl company still making the wooden clog type shoes? They were supposedly to be very good for your feet and at the time were quite expensive

Don't know if it was one of these shops originally or if it is out of shot on this photograph, but Plumb's TV and Hi-Fi dealers first shop was on this row.

Gordon Smalley's barber's shop was in this row for many years. You went through the more-or-less empty front shop to the barber's in the back.

Bill Davies sq deal shop was on the corner, and the old school type building once was Preston's furniture shop.

That must be the Wesleyan School ?

Paul I thought Prestons was on Standishgate opposite the old electric showrooms.

Jack, you are right - Preston's was on the other side of the road opposite the Electricity showrooms - they also had a shop in Market St. on the site of the original Lloyds Bank. There was a furniture shop next to Bill Davies which was a local firm who made furniture to order but I can't recall the name.

Jack/Paul - I have had a brainstorm since my last posting. I think the furniture shop whose name I couldn't remember went by the name of Vic Standish.

Derek B. Standish's, the furniture and cabinet maker's shop was round the corner on Standishgate. It closed in the early-mid 80's and if I remember rightly it was a pram shop for a time till the buildings were demolished.

The furniture shop in the old Methodist church was owned by two gents called David Dunn & Jack Roberts who sold basic suites and furniture. They also delivered fireplaces for Bill Davies (Square Deal shop) with the help of one of Bill's 'unofficial' employees, who was known as 'Smelly Johnny'.

The Clifton Bookshop was David Shaw.