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Judy2 Just think of those Wheelie Bins not being emptied over Christmas, the silence of the missing Collectors Lorry and the noise of hobnail boots, just the tap tap tap of the computer, perhaps it might lull you to sleep just this once.

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Hi the cross roads at Goodrich Road / Landcroft Road was A Grocery shop called Fletchers with a double gate to Goodrich, The shop on the other corner a Sweetshop called Mertons, opposite Second house towards L/L wise Hines the Builders whose back yard was in Landcroft Road, The other corner had a partly rebuilt pair of houses that had a fence made of wooden scaffold boards stood on end,outside was a Postal box, when it was the end of the war the fences go piled in the middle of the cross roads and burnt as a bonfire, the mergarine in the grocers window melted with the heat, and the post box got all the paint burnt off, I remember my brother in the army writing from somewhere abroad saying his letter was all charred. I often wonder if the families I knew still live in the adjoing houses, in Goodrich No3 The Woods No 7 The O'brians No 10 the Hardleys Clarence his mum used to come out in the road with a tablespoon of Fish oil and poured it down his throat, no wonder he used to crap himself. No 20 the Howdens No 28 The Morgans No 40 the Westons No 42 the Horgans No 37 the Greys No 47 the Bakers No 51 the Uttons,I have not met up with any of those in sixty years. In Landcroft lived The Biggs The Bowens The Davises, My school chum Norman Luff who got his legs smashed when the bomb dropped between our houses, there was an Off Licence on the corner of Thompson Road named Crosses, and a Grocers Dallimors. The houses on the left were two storied the right were three except where they replaced the bombed houses with just two stories.

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The dairy was a shop with an alleyway where they kept the milk push carts opposite the castle. The Bakers was called Noeths at the outbereak of war their window were broken as people thought they were Germans. The ovens extended out under the forecourt we as kids used to sit there to keep warm. On the other corner was Lashams we called it the Oil Shop he sold hardwere. The Greengrocers a little down was called Stallards. There were six shops on Goodrich and Landleds Road crossing, A Greengrocer called Wills Two Offlicences a Grocers A very small newspaper Shop, and a Boot Repaires behind the off licence towards Barry road. The little sweetshop in Heber Road was called Dons. There were also other real large Dairies, one was United Daries on the corner of L/L and Melbourne Grove Opposite Police Station with the Delivery carts at the back, the milk came in big urns. Hills Dairies was in Hindmans Road, I remember those Green Carts Loads of them. There was also a few doors along a garage where Singer Sewing Machines garaged their many Green Vans. Nortcross Road hed an Icecream shop called Guilianos corner opposite the school, If you looked Regens Mens shop window he came out and took you in, I did not mind as at that time I liked Guards clothing and if he thought he had made a sale I got it a little cheaper.

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