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What do you think the longest running shop is in Accrington ?

i think it would be Henry Gregson cycles.

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Remember it being Len Rowbottoms next door but one,got my first bike there in 1958.My dad paid for it at 10shillings a week!! it was a Dawes

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What about Mardens Leather shop in Waener street and Allens Optician shop in Dutton St
My wife got her first specs there in 1952

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Sorry bad spelling, Marsdens in Warner st

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There aint a shop that would come anywhere near a pub, on that basis would think Marsdens leather shop n Porters both on Warner st certainly longer than Henry Gregsons imho.

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Never thought about pubs but i think in the next twenty there won't be any.

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What about some of the stalls in Accy Market, some of them have had the same name for yonks.
But the oldest surviving business is in Warner St, & is definitely Porters Decorators, must be well over 100 years in the same place, same name.

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Cheers for that Retlaw Porters it is.

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cop shop

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That one came long after Len Rowbottoms and then the one across the road on the "Technical Arcade". Got my second bike at Len's (he and my cousin were best mates), in 1952/3 - a hand built Hill's Special.
I remember a couple of the shops in Warner Street when I used to buy tropical fish etc at Baldry's at the top of Warner St.
I also remember the Off Licence at the corner of Washington Street/Stanley Street in the 1940s which is still there

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I used to buy my tropical fish at Mary Baldry's.