Derby The Spot 191

By Sheila: Thanks for sharing, this was a real trip down memory lane, I grew up in Derby (1950-1968). Passing the link to other members of my family, I’m sure they will enjoy it too. I lived in Shelton Lock and then off Duffield Road. I went to SL Infants and Juniors then Homelands then Derby Art College Kedlaston Road campus) before going off to Brighton. I only returned for brief spells to visit family after that - I live in Cambridge now.I have fond teenage memories of the Boccaccio coffee bar Market Place, the Locarno Babington Lane, Clouds London Road, Rialto Osmaston Road. Then the Coop cafe and dentist (yuck) in Albert St and Midland Drapery, Thurman And Malin. A great-aunt had a tobacco kiosk in the parade where the GPO was in Victoria St - some time before WW2 her husband was manager of the ABC cinema in East Street. My father worked for Rolls-Royce all his life, his grandfather had a provisions shop in Uttoxeter Old Road and also one in Peartree somewhere but that was before I was born. Sheila