Hi jemmy hope danny had two shops if you would call it that his main shop was facing roden street one side of him was the venus pub or hannaings on the orther side of him was a house next was a sweet shop then fuscos chippy at the corner of mcdonnell street his second shop was a storeroom were he kept all oilcloth and mats for round your fire plus storage space for his main shop the shop you are thinking of was a hardware but was two shops you could walk from one to the orther and the post office was in the middle cant recall there name at the minute farnsbarn were are you help,sometimes you have to call on the older ones we have to many dead cells never mind the grey ones lol
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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