Shops on Heanage road
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Shops on Heanage road
Image: © John Firth Taken: 5 Jul 2010
Birketts the pork butcher, on the corner of Granville Street has been there for over 60 years. I used to queue up for sausages on a Friday morning for them as that was the only day they made them. This was in the early 1950s when a pound of sausages cost 2/6d (12.5p).
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Image Location
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53.558927
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-0.072692