“Before I lived with my father-in-law, my father was in the wholesale business and had shops in Kensington Gardens. When he died in 1912 I was so young that I had to give the wholesale up, I couldn’t manage it. He died when I was fourteen or fifteen. ‘Course, my mother sold the shops and all that, then I went on the street as a barrow boy. Mother sold the business in 1924. I met me wife and went to live with me father-in-law…I followed my father into the (Greengrocer) trade… I left school at 12. It was horse and cart in those days. My day consisted of 2:30 down the wholesale, come back at 8:00, went to goods yard at the station- had five tons of potatoes- two of us used two barrows- then from there to the passenger station to meet him, in from London with sixty packages. Sometimes we got finished 12:00 at night. I had to come in and do a day’s work in the shop, oh yes, as well. My pocket money was 2s./6d. a week. He made a marvellous profit.”

Turn right at the North Road entrance and then take the first right into Upper Gardner Street.