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Old 6th Aug 2018, 10:26 am   #4
GrimJosef
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Default Re: Hurst.Son & Page Boston

As it happens I was in Boston over the weekend for a family get-together (I was brought up there in the 1960's and 70's). Hurst Son & Page were indeed a local business and seem to have had their fingers in quite a few pies, so to speak. As well as the seed warehouse in Nuvistor's pic and the chemist's mentioned by ex 2 Base (on the left of this pic from the 1950s http://www.boston.gov.uk/media/image...st_1950s_2.JPG) they were also at least a sometime electronics retailer as the bottom pic on this page http://bostonpast.blogspot.com/2013/...-odd-bits.html shows.

By the time I was old enough to remember I don't recall any electronics element to what they did. Recent photos of Boston Market Place show that their property, no 16, is still there on the corner of Dolphin Lane, but it seems to have been 'To Let' for quite a while. The electronics and repair shop that I used to patronise as a child was Wilf Mellor's.That was located on New St (or perhaps the address was Red Lion St - one runs into the other) and latterly on West St, if I remember rightly.

EDIT: There is a blurry pic and a passing reference to Mellor's in the second entry on this page http://bostonpast.blogspot.com/2013/01/. It's claimed that the shop closed in September 1967. That's earlier than I would have guessed. It was the same month as my ninth birthday and I don't think I was soldering much by then ! However my father was in the electronics trade too and it's possible that he had taken me into the warren that I remember Wilf's old shop being.

Cheers,

GJ
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