Yesterdays behind today's facade

Looking at the sign on the supermarket promising a 'new way of shopping' soon, reminds me of how that particular shop once was.

When I was growing up, there were two separate shops on the site. One was a combination drapery/hardware, owned by my grandfather. The other was a grocery and pub owned by a pair of aunts of ours, Peg and Nora.

Each of which, to a small boy growing up in the early fifties, had enormous attractions.

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Brian Byrne.