Shops of yore

Going back to Roy Catlin at Unit Sales, I think it all developed from his time at A J Thomas where he was a rep and then along with Tony Kimberley and Clive Thomas ran their pop-up flash weekend sales of heavily discounted paint, wallpaper, etc. at one-off large venues around the country. Roy I believe also played for Atherstone Town FC, if I recall correctly.

We were in Norwich last September and took an underground tour of a small part of the city. We entered in through what had been a shoe shop/makers for 100 years or more and we were able to see 3 floors down how people had lived in the city for centuries before the business was opened. They also gave a great talk on the history of the shop itself and some of the families who bought all of their footwear there. One lady's family had bought her first shoes there and she bought her last when she was 90 something. The shop was also one of the first to have one of those Xray machines. Owen's had one and, as a kid, I rarely passed it when I was in that area of the shop - even though my mum said it would rot my feet!