This image is from a selection of photographs that were taken when Mrs Betty Gorman was an assistant in C. J. Dodd’s shop on Zetland Road. In this image Mary Coverdale is arranging the window display.
Image courtesy of Betty Gorman.
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Mr. Dodd sitting at his desk in the kiosk where the cash was handled in this photo, taken in August 1979. Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn.
John Dodd beside his father, behind the counter in their shop. Christopher Colbeck tells us: ” My mother, Dorothy HEBRON born 1915 in Loftus at Pear Tree House in the Market Place, told me a tale she remembered of her own mother Sarah HEBRON visiting the Dodds shop where they had just had installed; on the end of the shop counter, a device which held a large roll of brown paper for wrapping sold goods. Having bought and paid for some goods which were duly wrapped. She then noticed that the paper displayed the name of the shop. Dodds were very proud of the paper roll device but her mother in some fairly haughty manner told the staff that she was not going to walk through Loftus advertising Dodds name and made the staff unwrap the goods and reverse the paper and re-wrap before she would take her purchase out of the shop. Imagine trying that at Sainsburys today?” Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn and many thanks to Christopher Colbeck for that update.
Mr. C.N. Dodd standing in front of the net curtain display in August, 1979, there are some colourful materials on the shelves behind. Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn.
Betty Ditchburn and Mary Coverdale are behind the counter; whilst Betty Gorman is in front in this photograph. The cash tin can be seen above the shelves. Do you remember how your payment was put in the canister and it went round the wires to the kiosk? The money was taken out and your change put in the tin and then it was sent back to the counter. Image and names courtesy of Mrs. Betty Gorman.
A cheerful picture of Mary Coverdale, Betty Gorman and Betty Ditchburn at the counter of Dodd’s shop. The shelves behind them are packed with stock. Image courtesy and names courtesy of Mrs. Betty Gorman.
Dorothy, Betty and Jean pictured behind the counter in Dodd’s shop. There’s a 1977 Silver Jubilee, souvenir tea towel behind them. Was this the year that this photograph was taken? Image and names courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn.
A fine view of the row of cottages at South Loftus – complete with the obligatory posed urchins! Emily Millthorpe (nee Bunney) tells us: “I was born in one of these houses in 1948, my parents names were Kenneth and Florence. I have one brother (Keith)and one brother (Clive) who were born there. We then moved to Barnsley where my father worked in Grimethorpe pit. He worked in Skinningrove pit when we lived there, he worked with someone called Mr Gell who was in a fire and was scarred very badly all over and one younger brother also born there.” Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection and thanks to Emily Millthorpe (nee Bunney) for that information.
The shop and house in 1984. It changed hands again, once or twice, over the years and the shop has now gone; there’s a garden in its place. Image courtesy of John Roberts.
Now this is how we should remember! The shop window of Leng’s the Hairdresser bedecked with reminders of The Great War. At a guess the young man has reason for remembering – he is wearing a group of medals on his left breast, denoting that he joined up before 1916. It looks like he is also wearing a badge/medal on his right breast – where the ”unnofficial” medals go – could this be a SWB (Silver War Badge)? ”At the going down of the sun and in the morning – we will remember them!” (Last line of ”The Exhortation”) Nivard Ovington has told us: “The correct term is the Silver War Badge. In the SWB register is a Harold C LENG 200812 a private in the 4th Yorkshire Regiment, SWB badge number 264748. Enlisted 23rd November 1914, discharged 9th November 1917 under Army order 265 (II) (i) (b) aged 22 (served overseas). Many thanks to Nivard for that correction and update. |
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