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1 Burleigh Street, March 1970 (MoC 26/55/70)

1 Burleigh Street

History of 1 Burleigh Street

1937

George Chapman, boot makers

1962 1

Laings, boot and shoe reparers

JD sent this email in 2025:

Harry Laing was my father and bought the shop after the war. When I was a girl I helped for a while on Saturday mornings by serving customers. I remember the excruciating noise fom the machines out the back and which caused him to become partially deaf. He died in 1984.

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