your comments
Edward Drinkwater, Bridgnorth
My aunt Gladys Davies worked at Thomas's in Eastgate Street from the age of fourteen until she was in her seventies.She also sang in town choir can't recall which choir it was can anybody help me on that, also if they remember the shop.
Fri Mar 27 10:36:47 2009
Randall Enoch from Formby/Llandre
Yvonne - I remember well E P Wynne the chemist shop in Pier Street. E P Wynne, I believe, was a Rugby player who died of pneumonia after getting very wet during a game. A Miss Ballard ran the shop for his widow, who, I think, was a Miss Bond, from Llandre. The shop, until it ceased trading, remained very much as it always had been with its large coloured bottles etc in the window. Another shop was Doughton's in Terrace Road - an Alladin's cave!
Tue Feb 19 12:31:03 2008
Gordon Hughes, Worcester
I also worked for Mr Price, in the summer of 1953.
Work being somewhat in short supply, and I and Mr Price's son being connected with the scouts,(he being somewhat older)a word was put in on my behalf.I started at easter, straight from school and continued until the end of the summer. When he transfered me to the potteries. What a good start to a working life it was too.
Tue Mar 6 10:19:50 2007
Anita Muchall Louth Lincs
I would just like to add to Jane stephens message. My father Bert Harget worked with Mr Price in FHW in Aber before the war and shortly after as well. If anyone out there still remembers him he is living in Oadby Leicester with his wife Gladys both aged 88yrs and still very much 'with it'. My fathers brother Jack was a postman and if I remember correctly the family lived in Rock House Penglis Road. Grandfather was a member of the town council.
Mon Dec 4 08:00:28 2006
Jane Stephen, chippenham Wiltshire
My dad went to Ardwyn in the 30s and my Grandad Richard Price was manager of Freeman Hardy Willis for many years. I was born in Aberystwyth and spent many holidays in there. I also spent some time living with my Grandparents and my late elder brother in the 60s, also college at Llanbadern in the late 70s. Aber is my favourite place in the world , and having lived all over I still regard it as home.
Thu Nov 30 13:50:22 2006
Ali Mol Aberystwyth
yvonne. was ep wynne run by the 2 miss ballards
Thu Nov 16 09:38:14 2006
Yvonne Caul - Aberystwyth
Anyone remember E.P.Wynne (Chemist) at 7 Pier Street, Aberystwyth? I have a photo somewhere and will post it when I find it.
Fri Sep 8 12:35:13 2006
Norman Thomas, Borth
To add to my brother's reflections, father Cliff used to write the motto on the shop window "you can whip our cream but you can't beat it" every day. Milk came daily to Aberystwyth station in 10 gallon churns and I used to help our delivery collect them on a platform trolley. Milk was sold by ladling from a large container on the counter into jugs. This was before the advent of the silver capped milk bottle. Sausages came daily by train from "Palethorpes" all the way from Wiltshire. Biscuits were sold loose by weight from glass topped cabinet below the front of the counter and a perk was to eat the broken ones! Father had many long serving assistants none more faithful than Miss Agnes Morgan of Penrhyncoch who still lives there. In fact she was the only person able to coax my brother to school(such was his reluctance to go). He obviously preferred to weigh raisins!!
Mon Sep 4 10:41:44 2006
David Thomas, London
My relationship with 13 Terrace Rd is that
I lived there from the age of 10 until I left Aber to go to University at Cardiff. My father was Cliff Thomas who managed the "Creamery " for Richard Ellis who was his brother-in -law. I have such fond memories growing up there and helping
my father in the shop in the 50's. Some of the "jobs" in those days were of packing the sugar & raisins etc into "blue" bags and other items. No prepacked goods in those days. The cheese rounds and bacon
had to be washed and cleaned thoroughly before
being taken to the shop front for sale to the customers -known p!ersonally by name in those days. We had a small delivery van which covered a wide area around Aber even as far as "The George Borrow Arms" in Ponterwyd which my father drove on the usual half-day closure - sometimes I would be able to be with him to help. Sadly my father died in his early 50's in 1959 whereupon my Auntie (Mrs Richard Ellis ) continued the shop for some years before her son John
Ellis opened an Arts and Craft shop there. Yes I have some fond memories
of no 13 - too great a number in this
short space.
Tue Aug 29 11:05:17 2006
Dave Jones (ex Aberystwyth)
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Tue Jun 20 18:41:47 2006
Dave - ex Aber
There's "progress" for you
Fri Mar 24 22:52:30 2006
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