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Originally Posted by Marl

Oh forgot to mention does anyone remember Mother Gums Shop on Plantation St it was very dark in the shop and always smelt of snuff to me mother gum was a tiny lady if I remember but for some reason I was always a little bit scared of her.

I well remember all those names & places, alleys & back streets etc, I lived in Hargreaves St from 1935 till 1955. By the way the Chemist in Abbery St wasn't next to Fosters Paper shop, it was at the top of Black Abbey St, on the corner with Abbey St, the site is now empty, wasn't it called Hothersalls.
Mother Gums shop, she was the 2nd generation to live there, her mother was known as old mother Gum, used to get some of my toffee ration there.