The Shops At Cove Around 1965 Remembered During Childhood Over A Few Years

A Memory of Cove.

Next to Mundays (sweets, stationery and newspapers) was a butcher with sawdust on the floor, a separate paydesk in a kiosk (much more hygienic than today) and tubes which swept away the money.  On the other side was Yeoman's, a grocer shop.  Thorntons, which sold wool, haberdashery and clothes, was run by a very pretty lady (Miss Thornton before she married) who never seemed to age, and continued trading until relatively recently.  There was a post office, possibly with a chemist, and The Dairy.  At the bottom of Highfield Road was Mr Wilson's long, thin grocery shop and on the opposite side, another butcher (where the petrol station is now).
I remember Mr Young's shop on the "One Way Street" - I went to school with his children, I think, and there was a little hairdressers on the corner with Hazel Avenue.
Moving along, towards the green, I remember the Beauty Box hairdresser and the wool shop.
Opposite Cove Green was Charlie's - as has been said before - and my best friend at Tower Hill School, Jane's, father's coal delivery shop, Palmers.