The Mikado Drink Shop on Stubbin Lane.

[lysandernovo]

I wonder if anyone remembers the above? We called it the "drink shop" and it was run by "Aunt" Gladys and her sister. This tiny shop, with a bench seat along one wall,was where we bought our 2 oz of rationed sweets, our ice cream cornets, pop and ,when available, a glass of sarsparilla. Aunt Gladys was a lovely woman who, having one of the first TV sets in Firth Park, would occasionally invite a few of us regular kids into her back room to watch BBC Childrens TV and have ,as a treat, one of her home made ice lolly's.

[Edmund]

Possibly number 9 Stubbin Lane?   In 1939 it was a sweet and tobacco shop occupied by David and Fanny Darby and Gladys and Horace Maycock (then an Insurance agent).  By 1957 it was Darby and Maycock, herbalists.

Gladys maiden name was Darby and she married Horace, then a boiler fireman, in 1925 at St Luke's Dyers Hill.

[lysandernovo]

Yes, it was number 9 and I had forgotten "Aunt " Fanny's name.  I had left the area by 1957 so have no knowledge of them becoming herbalists.} The B and C  Coop was a drapery store. Pegrams a grocer ... we bought our rationed sugar, bacon, cheese and butter from there. Edith Seymour had a stationery/toy shop. Purcells had a really tiny  cobblers shop . I never went inside Crowthers and by 1957 the bank building was only six years old having been built on a reclaimed site which had held an emergency Fire Service water tank . Fenced off and entry forbidden...  but full of sticklebacks!🧐