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Lister Fruit Store

chocks2

chocks2

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My Dad tells me that during the 1930's & 40's everyone refered to the Lister Fruit Store, Gt Lister Street as " The Soldiers " but he never knew why. Apparently the owner had never been in the army. Anyone able to expand on the reason???
 
Hi chocks2,
You are referring to POULTONS, there is somewhere a newspaper cutting ,which I am sure has been posted on this site before.
 
Chocks, Copied this from another thread, does it answer your question about "Solders" fruit shop, type in search "Bennets paper shop" when it comes up follow the Bennets thread. Len. Kandor. or Anyone. Can anyone verify the shop at the corner of Goodwin Street (opposite the "Soldiers as I knew it?) I am sure it was Averills ( I think they had Vacuum Contraption that sent the customers money to the main cashier, or then again was it the metal cup fitted to an overhead wire? Kandor you were probably more right than I was because I read that the owner of the Greengrocers and fish stall (Poulton's) was an old "Soldier" from the First World War which is how it got the name all those years ago.

 
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