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May 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Personal Columns

It must be thirty years old. I know it was my grandmother’s because it’s a Boot’s 14 inch. (Why Boot’s got involved in such a business is a mystery). My grandmother bought everything in Boot’s, my grandfather, who died in 1972, had worked for them and I assume my grandmother got some discount as a Boot’s pensioner.

My grandmother died in January 1987 and I remember bringing back from England in the back of my little red Austin Metro, along with an assortment of other items. It’s been in the