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Posted in Site Updates on Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Todays Topics,  Shopping etc in Dovercourt In the early 40’s. By B.Brittain.

We had Basham’s for tobacco And Bennett’s fresh baked bread

Right next door was Trenwith’s Where the daily news was read.

Across the road was Harris’s For good old fish and chips

Tricker’s Café to have a cuppa Petch’s shop for odds and snips.

Spurge’s for a smart new suit Sewell’s for dairy produce

Dennant’s was a toy shop Starling’s sold you car juice.

For amusement we had Beale’s arcade The CO-OP butchers did adjoin

And we also had a Singer shop The Dunn’s for meat so fine.

On the other side was Well’s And the Maypole grocery store

Also Denney the fish monger With fresh fish by the score.

Thompson, Rice’s, Leslie Horn to name but just a few

Gordon Woods and Coral’s café Home And Colonial too.

We also had three cinemas plus one in Harwich Town

Now we’re left with only one The Palace of renown.

None of the names are there today none of the shops we knew

The best two places still about the Queen’s and King’s Arms too.

How wonderful the mem’ries are of the days that use to be

And I hope this little ditty Reminds you as it did me.