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My name is Alec and I'm a Kent lad.

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Invicta Alec:
Anyone else thinking about writing their personal memories?
This section was very popular on the old site.


I was chatting to a young woman recently and we talked about the TV programme "Mastermind". I asked her what she would choose as her specialist subject. After a little thought she answered "Me"!  ;D


Made me laugh, after all, "Me" is a subject everyone should be good at.


Alec.

Lutonman:
Yes, I knew all three as well.

Smiffy:
I remember the Butchers and Vic Bruce - he used to deliver orders around the estate, and I think this was also true of the Baker. I also recall visiting Dr Benson, I'd had an ear abscess and can remember him poking things down my earhole! Can't remember going to Durant's, I used to get taken to Hygenic in Batchelor Street to get my short back and sides :)

Invicta Alec:
Thanks Smiffy!


If pressed I would have come up with Fisher, Hook and Benson from memory.


Seeing the entries from Kelly's, how could I have forgotten Vic Bruce the greengrocer, Cox's the baker or Durant the hairdresser?!


I was always a little afraid of going to Durant's. He had a white dog (Husky?) that used to lay on the floor watching proceedings. The sort of dog you wouldn't have trusted as far as you could throw him. Or am I just letting my lifelong aversion to big dogs show?  :-\


Alec.

Smiffy:
Though this might jog a few more memories of the shops. Kelly's, 1953. Nothing for 179 for some reason.

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