Hi Ann Marie Your comments are very valid to those who are and will be researching their ancestors that lived there over time If we don't record our memories, researchers will be as bereft of knowledge of local businesses as most of are with our earlier relatives If only our parents and grandparents had the same facilities as we have with Rootsweb archives, how much better informed we would be All posts to the lists are archived enabling others to benefit from these reminiscences Your mention of the tobacco shop reminds me of one on Belvoir street , as you say the atmosphere was so strong you could cut it with a knife <g> I can vaguely remember two shops in Leicester that your post reminded me of, one was a furniture shop and had a rocking chair in an upper corner window and the other had a rocking horse in the window but cannot recall where either was The only memory I have of Market Harborough was the butter market Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I know its not a shop from Leicester but as a small child in the 60’s I remember going into the > local sweet shop/tobacconist in the Square in Market Harborough > > It was all completely wooden display cases > not only with all the wonderful penny sweets you > could get and the counter being a glass display cabinet which when tall enough you could see into > but when you went through this little archway > you went into the tobacconist which was identical but the smells of all the different Cigars and > cigarettes > was so strong. so strong in fact you would come out of the shop smelling of cigars for hours > after. > > A lovely lady called Nancy used to work there > > All the shops in the town as a child seem to have wooden interiors and smelt old > > Oh and the Clarks/Start Right shoe shop up the Leicester Road (another small narrow shop with > wooden displays and floor) had a rocking horse > in it that many children used to play with while waiting their turn to have their feet measured. > > Ann-Marie