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West Street had the extensive Nottingham Co-op stores,
several chain electrical goods stores and two large furniture
retailers. Plus the usual jewellers, small clothing stores several
ladies hairdressers and the town’s second cinema.
My responsibilities also included two or three out of town
car retailers with major agencies and a large potato merchant
at the bottom of the High Street.

WIDE BARGATE
Wednesdays were mid week market days and agricultural
machinery dealers brought their wares to town and displayed
them along the road sides in Wide Bargate.

The spacious and old established livestock market stood
tall and proud at the far end with its huge covered sales
building and extensive livestock pens.
Filling the two main sides of this huge rectangle of Wide
Bargate were elegant old mansions. Now, in the early 1960’s,
housing solicitors, newspaper offices, banks, shipping

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