Not only that, Rick, but you added a photo of your littlest sports car, no
less than a Berkeley, which has no connection whatever to Moose, but *does*
have a (tenuous) connection to me, and to Chris Barker.
I am amazed to hear that a Berkeley car not only made it across to the USA,
but is remembered to this day! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Cars
will tell all about Berkeley, a long-gone manufacturer of glass-fibre bodied
sports cars (but 1950s, Rick, not 1960s). British, of course, and based in
Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. But not the only odd little business in
Biggleswade - read on.
At http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2029 are three photos of a
Biggleswade ironmonger's shop which has traded at the same address, under
the same name, for a century and a half. It is no longer owned by the
Goldthorpe family, although the commemorative plaque is slightly inaccurate
- it was still in the family until the latter half of the 1970s, and John
Robert Goldthorpe was certainly not alive then. The shop had been in the
hands of his daughter, my great aunt, for many many years until her death,
whereupon it was sold to her long-standing shop manager, whose son now
operates the business. As you can maybe guess from the window display, it is
an old-school ironmongery, although somewhat modernised since I last
explored the site in 1975 - the smithy had only recently been demolished
(although long disused) but there were still plentiful stocks of oil lamps,
wicks and mantles, nails of all shapes and sizes, all manner of hammers,
everything price labelled with tie-on labels (prices were 'secret' coded in
letters).
Piers
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