Last month we printed a letter from Mrs A D Atkin of Armorial Road enquiring about the privately owned lending library which used to be on Earlsdon Avenue North from the 1950s to the 1970s. We have had several responses about that and similar libraries in the area. Mrs Brannigan wrote to say that her …
Category: History
An account of our war days 1939-1945
Many of our older ECHO readers will remember Doris and Jack Smith who ran Fane’s Newsagents at the top of Earlsdon Street (now Brian Holt Estate Agents) for many years until they retired in 1981. Doris moved to the Wirral to be near her daughter, Averil, and kept in touch with this area through her …