Yortk Stores

A Memory of Trethomas.

I was born in the corner grocer's shop at 8 Newport Road formerly know as 'York Stores' my father, Don Northover, used to manage it for a man called WJ Greene who also had shops at Bargoed and Abertwsswg - a very early form of Tesco's !
The shop is now the Trethomas post office.
My family, my Father Mother my older brother Ray my younger sister Pamela younger brother Don and youngest sister Ruby, lived at the shop unitil about 1952 when we had to leave as my father had died from cancer.
We then moved to 1 Thomas street where my mother bought Harry Hardins fish & chip shop. She ran the fish & chip shop for a couple of years but then she closed it as it got too much for her with four children ranging from me at (12yrs old to Ruby 3 yrs old) to look after also.
What happened after that is as they say another long story !