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This was 120 Market Place, in the same small parade of shops as Forsters Chemist and Forsters Sweetie shop. It was my Dad's greengrocer's shop from immediately after WWII till the sixties. He didn't change the name of the business, it was (I think) Eames.... no that's not right. When he took over his parent's greengrocers at 56 Collier Row Lane, the shop became Ernie Brooks Turf Accountant.
The small parade of shops at right angels to Dad's parade had a photographers, and the first ever Chinese Restaurant. We loved to tell stories of cats going missing after they opened! It was the 50's.
There was also a Ford Dealership just one or two shops towards the market. All the large stone bollards and railings from the cattle market went along the side of the pavement. I remember the cattle market in the 50s. And the smell! '