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Tales of the Shopocracy John Barnie (Gomer, pounds 8.99) The author grew up in a different world. This was Abergavenny in the aftermath of World War Two, where most of the families he knew, like his father and his uncles and aunts, were small town shopkeepers.
His father Ted, himself the son of a Scottish crofter who became a policeman after emigrating to the South Wales coalfield in the 1880s, was born in 1902 into a world that was even more different, where cars were a rarity among the horses and carts. By the time he died the roads were choked with cars and man had landed on the moon.See the full content of this document
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Ted opened his sweet shop in the 1920s with pounds 20 borrowed from one of his siblings and rented fro...
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