The Bon Marche
My grandparents lived here. My grandmother ran the shop and my grandfather was a carpenter in Hythe. I have very happy memories of sitting behind the big glass fronted cabinet on a stool, taking the customers' money and giving them their greenshield stamps.
I remember a very old fashioned grocery shop near The Bon Marche with wooden floorboards and high shelves with tins on. The cashier was in the middle of the shop in what I always thought of as a cage. I think a Miss Sharp ran this shop.
There was also another village shop overlooking the village green where Nanny and I would go. They sold little Hovis loaves which she would buy when I came to stay.
My grandparents also owned and ran Balgowan. I believe this was after WWII and was a type of boarding house.
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Coo! I remember shopping in Bon Marche with my mum! I grew up in Lympne, and lived there from 1952 to 1965. Once a week, we would catch the bus into Hythe, spend the morning shopping, and then either go and see a film at the Ritz, or go for afternoon tea in the little cafe that used to be opposite Dickie Trice's in Red Lion Square
Comment from Sue Tym on Thursday, 8th April 2010.