Alan Moran in Eire sent us an email to say…
I was very happy to find the old photo of Connor’s shop on your site this evening (posted Sept 2016) as I spent today in a Dublin library reading through a fascinating and amusing collection of letters written by George Connor, Dorothy’s husband, in the late 1950s when he was tracing his Irish relatives and ancestry.
He mentions the shop – it was very much his wife’s business – and how it got started, in some detail, and the fact that they had “eight adult staff”.
Connors Shop, Harrowby Lane
Connors Shop, Harrowby Lane.
From left Dorothy Connor (nee Barnes), Violet Atter ( Short), Dorothy George, Elsie Curry, Joan Curry, Joyce Adams ( Connor), Joyce Connor ( Short) and the man at the back is Bonner Short .
Peter Lawrence I remember the original owners Mr & Mrs connor her nickname was Dolly and her husband was a lovely man he always greeted you with a smile .
I remember this shop in the early sixties.
You could get a little packet of crisps for a penny. They came out of a big tin, Smith’s i think.
If the shop was shut you could get your chocolate, sweets, chewing gum,bubbly and a choice of fags from one of the many machines on the wall outside. I vaguely remember a big revolving dispenser the stood on it’s own to the right of the photo.
I’m sure Mr & Mrs Conner retired to Ingoldmells on the coast in the mid sixties.