Hi - I'm new to this site, so firstly, hello! Happy to join you. I wonder if anyone could help me please? My grandmother (now 94,sadly with dementia) was trying to recall the shop she and her husband once owned on Great Lister Street. I believe it was in the 40s and or 50s.
Their names were Frank and Lydia Houghton and they had two children Brian and Valerie (my mother - who can't remember the name of the shop either). The shop by all accounts sold everything! I did find an old post on here where somebody mentioned an old shop there that looked like it had a load of dead animal/fur coats outside. Mom laughed and said that sounded like the shop! Does anyone remember the nam of the shop and my grandparents? I believe my nan was a character back in the day, often wheeling her trolly down to the rag market where she also had a stall.
My nan's short-term memory is not great but often she will pull out such a clear memory from decades ago. when I mentioned Great Lister street she also mentioned an Eve's sweet shop with some great hand-made rock and something like home and colonial? I jotted it down and just wondered if some of her memory served her right? Did those shops exist?
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Their names were Frank and Lydia Houghton and they had two children Brian and Valerie (my mother - who can't remember the name of the shop either). The shop by all accounts sold everything! I did find an old post on here where somebody mentioned an old shop there that looked like it had a load of dead animal/fur coats outside. Mom laughed and said that sounded like the shop! Does anyone remember the nam of the shop and my grandparents? I believe my nan was a character back in the day, often wheeling her trolly down to the rag market where she also had a stall.
My nan's short-term memory is not great but often she will pull out such a clear memory from decades ago. when I mentioned Great Lister street she also mentioned an Eve's sweet shop with some great hand-made rock and something like home and colonial? I jotted it down and just wondered if some of her memory served her right? Did those shops exist?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. This is a fantastic site and resource
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)