Seven am on Beech Road can be a quiet place.
Echelles the newsagents has been open for more than an hour, while the Co-op is ready for its first customers.
By eight they will have been joined by Ludo’s, but for the rest it will be the nine o’clock watershed or later before they are ready for business.
Leaving me, the odd cat, and a paper girl to occupy Beech Road.
Added to which the place is a lot brighter than it would have been just a few decades ago, when economy minded shop keepers would not have bothered to turn on the lights before the customers were about.
Location; Beech Road
Pictures; Early morning Beech Road, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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