THE story about the sad news of the closing of Prestons was of particular interest as my late parents met there and I am sure that my mother's lovely engagement ring, now mine, was bought there,

My mother Alice Grundy, as she was then, worked in the office and my father, Thomas Middleton Boardman, worked at P&J Kevan and did the audit.

I believe he teased my mother unmercifully from exchanging the meat in her sandwich for blotting paper and telling her that a paper she had mislaid had blown out of the window and down Churchgate!

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