Tate,S Store

High Street 1903
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Yes I remember Muffets the fish mongers.
I worked after school and at the weekends, in the early 60's, in Tate’s Store at the bottom of the High Street, It was a general store that sold everything and anything you wanted from ice cream to petrol.
I use to work in the store, serve petrol and also deliver groceries, on a heavy trade pushbike, all over Old Harlow and Churchgate Street. We also use to recharge and deliver accumulators which were used in early portable radios and deliver paraffin in one gallon cans for heaters all by pushbike.
Old Harlow High Street was a busy shopping community in the 60’s with a large range of shops catering for every trade – a very different time.