Thank you so much for sharing these. Warrenders looks more like how I remember it there, with the larger glass window.
I remember the corner drapers store. It was a step down back onto the pavement. I can't remember it being a drapers, but I do remember it opening up as a second hand store and I bought a battery operated cassette tape player there for £12 in about 1972.
@Dido - you didn't go to Corpus Christi too by any chance did you? I have a very old fashioned name and have always hated it.
My other memories revolve around the local shops. the VG store on the corner of Flaxley Rd and Audley Rd - we did all of our food shopping here and used to call it Jack's. I thought this was a huge shop, but it was so small by today's standards. Willy the butcher eventually had his own entrance I think.
Further down the road towards the Atlas there was the chemists on the corner (scottish people ran it I think - maybe Campbells?) with a big horse chestnut tree outside. There was the Bon Bon run by the Colliers - they could be seen sweeping the pavement every evening at closing time.
Nora had a clothes shop, Pet (from Newcastle area and always known as Pet as that's what she called everyone) ran the greengrocers and tipped the muddy potatoes straight into your bag. She also had a pekinese dog that I occasionally walked for her. At one time there were two hairdressers. Later there was a car parts shop. I bought my first transistor radio from a shop along here too, but cannot remember whether it was an electrical shop.
