Cycle Shop & Steggles

A Memory of Pitsea.

My memories of the small block of shops was the Penny Farthing cycle fixed to the wall outside the cycle shop. That shop had all you needed for your bike and more, like the elastic we needed for our catapaults. Hard to get anywhere else. Steggles where I done my paper round from aged 12 until I left school at 15. My round was Crest Avenue, St Marys Crescent & Manor Road when it was built. The evening round was the same but with some of Rectory Road as well. The other two shops were a wool & curtain shop on the end & a convenience store next to Steggles. There was also a shop on the corner of Crest Avenue which was like a mini mart, cannot remember the name.