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Happt memories of Horsham's Queen Street
YOUR photograph of Queen Street brought back happy memories for me. Bon Marche became Hills and then Buckingham's, a confectioners.
Howe's Shoe Shop was still there c1935. Next door was Parker's, an electrical shop where I often took the empty radio battery (glass) to be refilled with acid which I then carried home aged about five or six!
No health and safety then!
Next was Horlock's, a clothes shop, then Wheeler's the grocer on the corner of Park Terrace East, with glass top biscuit tins set out at an angle but we went for the one on the end filled with broken biscuits.
I was born two doors up Park Terrace East from the Alexandra Rose Inn where we would go to buy "ticky snacks" (steak and kidney pies) price 2d each.
Then came Huben Baker the well known clock maker.
Two or three shops along was Marie Sayers, a wonderful drapers and embroidery shop, then Knight's Hardware, a few more shops then Haffenden's Hardware with a lovely smell of paraffin when you walked in.
JEAN BAXTER
Highlands Road, Horsham
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