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Hi Jogi, you wrote:......."If you want to know more about the area in your mum's era, I've got several booklets composed by the residents of that time.The best authorative account is the book by Malcolm Mercer. Happy to supply details." Thank you, I'd be very happy to receive those details - perhaps I can obtain Malcolm Mercer's book when I visit the UK later this year?

Very naughty!

Thanks for your advice and info! While Hurst's means nothing to me. in Sep. 1928, the Chapman family were living at 961 City Road which I believe is very close to the junction with Prince of Wales Road.

My late mother (1923-2002) went to Prince of Wales Kindergarten in 1927/28 - her parents had a newsagents/confectionery/icecream shop, probably on Prince of Wales Road or City Road, which went bust during the Great Depression. Can a local historian tell me more about their shop's likely location and more about that:help: area for the 1927-1931 period?