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Tommy Goodwin was in the news recently, he died last year having made 90. I saw a photo of him in the national press holding his prized penny farthing bicycle. He was famous for winning a bronze medal in the 1948 olympics. Life was rather different for top flight athletes in those days. They...

Yes he had this tradition of wearing starched white shop coats, which were laundered by the laundry Summer Lane. My mother started working in the shop about 1952, when my dad went in to the Queen Elizabeth hospital for a gall stone operation. It was supposed to be a temporary arrangement as she...

My grandfather Harry bought the shop from Charlie Smith of Steelhouse Lane in 1919. At the time it sold -guns -cycles -motor cycles -radios & gramophones. By the 1930s it was perhaps the leading lightweight cycle shop in the city. My father Dick took over the business in 1946 when he came out of...

Sorry to have to tell you that when I cleared my dads house in 1994, after his death, all the photo albums of the family business had disappeared. You are right - the site is now part of the Collier used car dealership. The address by the way was not Sutton Rd, as most people thought, but 2-4...