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Description

Photograph of unidentified food store shows shop counter, with goods stacked for viewing. It is thought to be 'Lamertons' of which there were two outletsone in Main Street "exactly two minutes walk from the Post Office" and one in Broadway. They stocked health foods and European specialties that didn't really catch on completely with the public until the 1970s. James William Lamerton, who ran the shop, died in 1998 and had an ash burial in Kelvin Grove.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Bc 329
Date
circa 1935
Digitisation ID
2009N_Bc329_BUI_2475
Held In
Coolstore

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grocery store,
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