King Street Southall

A Memory of Southall.

These are a few of the shops I remember from my childhood: Platts store where you could buy 2oz butter or half a loaf of bread, Greens the open veg shop, the Co op store which my mum worked in when she left school, the Candy Box sweet shop where only two customers at a time could get in there, but oh, so many lovely sweets, the Hatter's shop where you could buy everthing you needed from hats to buttons and corsets. The Toy Shop, great at Christmas where we used to daydream looking in the window, and Liptons food store, they sold lovely fresh ham but were more expensive than Platts. There was also a very small clothes shop called Eve's which belonged to a kindly Jewish family. I loved this shop in my teens, where I bought all my clothes. And then came Coombs the bakers, just to mention a few.

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