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Working in a shop

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The row of shops on London Road, Leicester. Kempin's the tobacconist's was on the right.

In 1935 a fourteen year old girl from a small village in Leicestershire left home and came to work in a tobacconist's shop on the London Road in Leicester. The shop has been amalgamated with the shop next door and is now a Leicester Mercury news shop.

These are some of her memories:

 

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