Miss  Canning,   

A Memory of Chapel St Leonards.

Miss Canning did not have the haberdashery store, that was Mrs Graham and her shop was next door to Stows Stores.  In the back was a little tea room and a girl called Lilly Bodice worked with her.  The shop and cottage she lived in was left to Lilly when Mrs Graham passed away.  Miss Canning sold the papers, sweets, cigarettes and the stall outside had fruit and veg.  One year she sold fireworks, only the one year as the village lads pinched most of them.  I have to admit I was one of those lads and she was my Aunt.  Happy days.  Stinsons Moter Services was the local bus way before the Lincolnshire Road Car came to the village. Their buses were red and the Road Car were green.