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The Reardon family have been running their fish stall in the market for generations. This is their first stall, in the Victorian fish market in Golden Square

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Reardon's stall in the late 1960's

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The arch between the meat and fish market, July 1974. John Cross & Sons stall is on the left. The Cross family still trade in Warrington Market

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Butterworths is also still in business today.

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Albert Spencer's soap stall

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This market stall is decorated for Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on 1953. The owner has on her best hat and coat.

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Marks & Spencer on Sankey Street in the late 1970's...

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....and again in the 1980's

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Cross's shop, 1872. It stood on the corner of Bold Street and Sankey Street and was replaced a few years after this photo was taken by the Woolpack Hotel, later still by the block including Waterfield's bakery.

Mr & Mrs Cross stand in front of their shop. Their grand-daughter Mrs. Bowcock recalled: 'All the goods were hung up every day then taken down again at night. I remember that grandfather never got dressed up - he always wore the clothes he wears in this picture. He lived to be over 80.'

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JH Parkinson & Son, 'practical manufacturer's of sound, reliable brushes and brooms....There are brushes for all purposes, hair brushes of a superior class, and scouring brushes more remarkable than picturesque, for there is not much romance in a scrubber.' (Jubilee souvenir guide, 1898)

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