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Everything conceivable was sold on the Green every
Wednesday morning. You could buy a perfectly good motor car
here although not a modern vintage, and drive it home after
you had paid.
Perhaps it was the junk that attracted most folks. Large
crowds of bargain hunters flocked here every week.
Regular bus services left for all parts of the district from
just outside the main Post Office in the top western corner of
Wide Bargate.
Next door was the East Midlands Trustee Savings Bank, the
peoples bank of the 1950’s where every school child was
encourage to have a savings account that was initially
managed through their schools. Naturally as time went by
most of the local population had an account of some type at the
TSB.
NARROW BARGATE
Wide Bargate was a community on its own, separated from
the Market Square by Narrow Bargate.
(Picture from the internet of Narrow Bargate looking
towards Wide Bargate.)
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