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Dear Readers
We are sourcing what we can from the Library’s holdings and have added 1940-1941, 1943-1950 in the last 24 hours.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/id/staffordshire-sentinel
Thank you all for your continued interest in this title, and Happy Reading!
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Team BNA
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Our local corner shop was called Dickins' and was situated on the corner of Goldsmid Street and Sladedale Road. It was owned by a lovely elderly couple, Mr & Mrs Dickins. They were related to the Dickins who had their own shop in Parkdale Road who also later owned another shop on the corner of Parkdale and Sladedale Roads (ex Welsh the Greengrocers) and which was run by Lennie Dickins their son. Dickins' was a typical corner shop. To us local kids it was known as 'the sweet shop' as indeed all local kids called their own local shop. These shops all had that very recognizable corner shop smell, a familiar aroma they shared in common. A bouquet of smells that incorporated hints of soap, paraffin, confectioneries, kindling wood, mothballs and other smells more subtle. Often stacked up on high shelves that reached the wood-lined ceiling, an array of rows of large glass jars, each labelled jar containing varying amounts of different coloured sweets for our young eyes to feast on, whilst we pondered on what to get with our penny held tight in our hand.