The first shows her nan, Alice Newman, outside her novelty shop at 245 High Street.

The shops numbered 242, 243, 244 were the same style as no. 245: a central recessed door with windows either side.

The film "They Were Not Divided" (Odeon advertisement outside the shop) was released in 1950.

If you are interested in this area, there are other photos Diane has provided of this area taken by her father around 1966.

In the background goods on sale included Stotherts Seidlitz Powders, Zebra Grate Polish, aspirin tablets, olive oil (presumably for putting in your ear rather than cooking with), castor oil, iodine, Koray pain killers costing 4 old pence a packet and Daisy headache tablets.

I remember the gas works across the road, and the trolley buses which ran along High Street.My uhcle Peter and his wife Dolly lived in Pump Alley. I only remember them as a young child, I was 16 when my family emigrated to Australia.