staffordjas
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Joe Ellis was my mums cousin.He had the pet shop where Rooneys Barbers is now and a sports shop the other side facing the library somewhere around where IGS is now. I remember my parents splashing out on a Hockey stick for me, that they couldn't really afford, because I had made the school hockey team............didn't go down well when the next day the teacher decided I wasn't good enough to play for the team after alland it ended up never used !Joe Ellis opp the old library. Bought my first proper fishing rod and my first gun from there. Spent hours perusing the goods through his window.
Also remember buying my nans budgies off him.
Watching a film that mentioned the old 'Feather cut' the other day reminded me of the days John Henrys travel agent , on Bodmin avenue, Weeping Cross, used to be John Henrys barbers in the front half of the shop and a hairdressers at the back. He did the best hair cut I've ever had !