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Changing face of Wrington’s shops.
Prompted by the recent announcement of yet
another re-incarnation, into a flower shop, for
what many still think of as Parsley’s shop on
the corner of The Triangle, Bob Bowen has
kindly sent these photographs of other shops
and their shopkeepers which he took in 1983
or thereabouts.
They nicely complement the conversations
which were videoed in 1987/8, some of which
are summarised, with stills from the videos,
elsewhere on the website.
Those stills, from a VHS camcorder, give
nothing like the quality of Bob’s photos, which
prompt thoughts of how far opportunities for
shopping - and chatting - have reduced in
Wrington over the years,
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