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> My mum remembers Holdrons, she said it was

> definitely 'Selfridges of the south'. Also Ghinns,

> the wool and fabric shop, opposite where Marks and

> Spencer was.


Yes Ghinns.. That's the place I was trying to think of.


Ghinns.. Kennedys.... Walworths..


The record shop was Reed's


http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/uploads/7/1/4/7/7147924/1403634_orig.jpg


Run by an elderly woman who was brilliant and later by her son.


Foxy

Ghinns - my mum worked there and during the school holidays if she could not get any child care the manager allowed her to take me and I spent the day in the stock room writing out price labels and sticking/tying onto clothes etc. This was in the late 50s.


I think there was a Freeman Hardy Willis shoe shop as well. I got my first ever pair of Chelsea boots in one of the shoe shops (The Beatles made them a fashion item) - paid 21 shillings for them. Also in Rye Lane you could get pale blue Levi jeans for a few pounds.

The Co-operative department store at the top of Rye Lane, had a travel agent, electrical dept, furnishings, a small bank ( I worked There). Next door was a small grocery dept. It also had a lift which was operated by someone in

uniform. Across the road was a co-op chemist where the funeral shop is now and further down maybe where Asda is was the Co-operative mans store.

My mum used to work in Jones and Higgins .I bought a monopoly board game there .I think I was 7or8 years old.my mum often said lulu had apartime job there? Got a photo somewhere of me mum and friend behind one of the counters with their beehive hair styles😊

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