[JoanR]

I remember some of these shops very well, from the forties and fifties. The people who owned Hopwood's attended New Jerusalem Church and Sunday School, when I did. Their son Peter was a bit older than me. They once ran a children's competition, when you had to identify a slogan in the shop. They had to tell me what a slogan was, but I won a toy sewing machine. I also remember Baldry's, where we bought dog biscuits, and Key Joe's.