The Top Shop
This was the year I started school and my mum took me into the top shop after school for some sweets for being a good girl at school (I think it was called Berrys) and every Saturday my nan came over and gave me sixpence to spend at the top shop for sweets and they would have to last the week. AsI grew older my mum let me go on my own, I never moved from the village and I could do all my shopping there as well. We had shops - a butchers (owened by Mr Harriot), a bakers (sorry, can't rember the name), a post office (owned by Mr and Mrs Barnard), another sweet shop (owned by Mr and Mrs Paine), a delicatessen (owned by Mr and Mrs Deerman), a greengrocers (owned by George and Jack Samuels) and a few more shops that I can't remember and the top shop which changed owners frequently, the one I can remember is Mr and Mrs Welfare as Mr Welfare looked like my grandad. I still live here.
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I spent a lot of time in Meadvale as a youngster. My grandad and nan lived at number 49, right next to the sweet shop and across the road from the post office. I left there in 1975 and went to Canada. I have been back to England a few times and have gone through Meadvale only twice. My nan had adopted three boys of which one of them was my dad, Keith Wilkins. She also adopted two other boys, Bruce Dunn and Tony Gowan who also live at number 49 for many years. I remember Mr and Mrs Felgate and their son Les. They were avid motor bike racers if I remember.
Looking at all of the photographs it sure brings back memories.
Comment from David Wilkins on Monday, 3rd August 2009.