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The Way It Was
A Memory of Orrell.
I remember as a little girl running to the Sweet and Tobacconist shop on the corner of Westfield Road, where we lived, for 5 Woodbines for my mum. The shop was owned by Tom Lewis. Obviously it wasn't a problem selling cigarettes to little girls then. As rationing was still on I would also be sent next door to Wormwells, the grocers for 2oz of sugar, which was sold in a cornet of blue paper, which my mum called a "screw of sugar".
On the block between Westfield and Mossfield Roads there were 9 shops: Dry Cleaners; Simmonds' Tobacconist/Newsagent; Mayfair Hairdressers; George Dangerfield Butchers; Greengrocers; I have a blank in my memory for the next shop, then a Bike Shop (where my "Pink Witch" bike was bought); Wormwell's Grocers; and Tom Lewis' Sweet and Tobacconist. Can anyone remember what that other shop sold?
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