hi farnsbarn 100% right there was a pawnshop there next door was yet an orther newsagent outside the bus stop if you remember and a printing place a wee small shop his far then the gateway and then the hardware shops which you could walk from one to the other without leaving the shops and the post office was between theses two i dont remember a undertaker up this far my undertaker was the corner of venice street owned by the mackies john i think but not sure or was that the sons name .Imust admit you still have a good memory dont worry when i remember the name i will be right back if dawson doesnt arrive first ha ha farnsbarn link=topic=20556.msg1107915#msg1107915 date=1333341384]
Hi Colin, The sweet shop next to Fusco's was a newsagent and tobacconist, it was called Nelson's. When I was an apprentice, I painted the sign above the shop, it was just at the tram stop (no, not the horse tram) and when the tram stopped, I could feel all the faces staring at my neck, I always had to clean my brush when that happened, I could reach out and touch the tram, it was so close. My Dad asked me had a fly fallen into the paint and landed on the sign. Years later, when I was a journeyman, I went back and painted it again for nothing. About the post office, there's a picture of it in the Excise St. thread, I think it's called Grosvenor St. Post Office, it was facing Arundel St. Next door was an undertakers, and there was a young girl lived there called Valerie Cook. Wasn't there a pawnshop at the corner of McDonald St. and Grosvenor Rd.?
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