It is hard to remember that there was a time before there were any restaurants, bars, gift shops and art galleries on Beech Road. Not long before the Conservatives won the 1979 election; there were still grocery shops, two bakeries, three butchers and a green grocer. And a wonderful hardware store where you could buy a nail, a ball of string and a gallon of paraffin. There was also this shop specializing in anything and everything. I remember them well, we drank in the Trevor and more recently they have shared their memories of Beech Road.
Picture; Beech Road from the collection of Lawrence Beedle
I used to get my haircut at billy jacksons when i was a child. The bakers were called Richardsons and there was a butcher just further along but i am unable to remember his name. A friend of mine from school lived at the horse and jockey pub his parents ran it Michael Waite was his name.
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