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Trip to Folkestone 1926

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smiler:
    We had a tallyman Hugh Wiley shop along Rochester used to call every Friday evening but I think this should be another topic we are far from the original Folkestone  :)

castle261:
It`s a small world - I would not know when It closed as my brother & I were evacuated to Newington in 1939 - 7 miles away - to church Lane, on again
in the summer of 1940 - to South Wales. Does anyone remember the `Tallyman` he was a man like `Blundle`s` for bed linen - for so much a week.                                                     

smiler:
   johnfilmer the shop I remember was definitely on the right. I wouldn’t know yours as I wasn’t born until 1944 the year yours closed. :)

castle261:
You are right smiler - she must have started the shop around 1935/6 - I would say - Half way between the steps & the top of Castle Road.
It was below the alley way at No 210 - that led to Gordon Road.

johnfilmer:
My grandmother’s Castle Road shop was at 207, in the front room. They let the upstairs and lived next door at 205. It closed on her death in 1944. Definitely on the left on the way up.


I will do a piece on my family’s various little shops when life stops pestering me!

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