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shop windows themselves as juggernauts and double decked
buses squashed and buckled the paving, seeking a way of
passing each other in the confined highway built some
hundreds of years previously for a few horses and carts.
The highway passed on into Wide Bargate, the centre of the
traditional “Agricultural” trade in the district.
This was where I worked, my office window on the first
floor, above the spacious “Lincolnshire Standard” classic shop
front and main office below.
D. T. Gratton’s the County’s main agricultural dealer was
almost opposite. In 1960 they were the Ford tractor dealers
and their extensive yard and buildings included wagon
building and machinery making works.
Directly opposite were Hutsons' the ironmongers with
their huge double fronted shop and worn wooden flooring,
circling what seemed like acres of shelves, cupboards and
drawers, all marked in ancient script. Then followed Addy’s
photographic studios, a building society premises and Wing’s
newsagents and printers.

(Picture below from the internet of the Boston Standard
office, 1950’s and 60’s.
The gentleman is actually leaning from my window!)

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