Looking towards Mount Street and Leskinnick Terrace.
I don't think this scene has changed a great deal although the pub' may have been re-named once or twice. I think it was probably called the Lamorna Inn or similar at that time.
I think that after WW2 the old shop was taken over by Mr.Dass, who had been demobbed from the RAF. He set the shop up as a café for a few years and then moved to the bottom of Market Jew Street (maybe where Hall’s Dairy was). From there the little café venture expanded. The Railway opposite was run by Dick Murley and his Wife – did a good trade at the side door with the old “bottle and jug . Symons mild a best seller.
I remember I used the alleyway to the right of the shop. The alley lead to the back lane of Mount Street and eventually to the back lane of Penlee Street. I would often use this route when I walked from the bus station to visit my two elderly aunts in Penlee Street
I often used to come down that way from school to the 'bus station. Across the Rec', Penare Tce, St Mary's Street , through alley (was this past Friggens' Dairy or was that elsewhere?) to St John's Tce, down the rear of Leskinnick Tce, through some alley or other around Courtwoods and down the back of Mount St, emerging through that alley.
You would have gone thro the lane beside Friggens, turned right by St.Johns and the the back lane as you described, down by Courtwoods, and behind Leskinnick and out here. I lived for a lot of years in ! St.Michaels Street. This was the first house next to Courtwoods.
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