Grocers Shop
This shop on the right, was first opened by my Dad's father, Henry Absalom, it was next door to a sweet shop his wife Ethel ran. Ethel started a little shop from much further down the High Street during the 2nd World War when Henry came down from London to work as an armaments worker at the factory opposite the station - was that Gillets?. She ran her shop originally from her front room from a tiny house further down on the right. Then they had a little shop which was later a fish shop and I think might now be a computer shop - perhaps someone can enlighten me on this. Eventually they opened the sweet shop, the grocers and the chemist which was run by someone else (I cannot remember his name). Perhaps someone else can help me out.
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RE: RE: Grocers Shop
I think my mother Rose Alice Marston used to work in the grocery/sweet shop for seven years. She was 24 and this would have been between the years 1935 - 1944. She left England via Liverpool in April 1944 to Halifax NS, Canada and onto Brandon, Manitoba.
Comment from Eunice Livingstone on Saturday, 19th May 2007.
RE: RE: Grocers Shop
The Absaloms also had a further shop at the corner of Dawnay Road which was the next road down from Howard road where my family lived. He was known locally as Harry Absalom. This was a general grocers shop which kept us going through the war years.
Comment from Reginald Russell on Sunday, 20th May 2007.