Stokkie
master brummie
My mother, Edith Chinn worked there for seventeen and a half years starting bagging sugar age 14 in 1921. It was a wholesale grocers. Leach Lane disappeared in the 1960s, but ran from Monument Road to Freeth Street. These pictures of Edith with her workmates were taken in the Summer of 1939 on her leaving to work at the Co-op. She would walk to work from Reservoir Terrace, Osler Street. The boss with moustache is Mr Turfrey. The warehouse kept several cats to deal with with the ever present rats and mice and Edith adopted a series of kittens, but they were always pretty wild. Does anyone know more about Hales and Sons or Leach Lane? Edith on left in top picture.
