the shop at ardgowen st i remember very well. it had a cigarette machine at the outside in ardgowen st.
O you must've been a smoker then when you remember that bit???
The shop between Cregagh St and the Ave was owned by people called Wylie and it was converted from a house to a shop and they kept the bay window. My parents knew the Wylies and their son Tom took over the shop when they retired and ran it with his wife. He converted it back to a house when his wife died and he lives there now on his own. In the early 60's another shop which was a fruit shop, changed hands and opened a few doors away as another sweet shop in competition. A friend of mine worked there after school and at nights but I can't remember the name of it. The owners, mother and son, I think lived above it. O memories
The houses are still all there intact with their bay windows and only one is a shop, another is an office.
Hodgett's sweet shop is still a newsagents and the Cregagh Inn is now a Solicitor's office. Don't know about Ardgowan St though - I guess we only kept to one side of the road
