Redwurzel
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I had to laugh out loud this morning on how Harry Pearson described going to Jack Hatfield's for some boys football boots in 1970ish, when reading his book the The Farther Corner. I don't think he will mind me quoting a small bit.
"The Hatfield brothers were fantastic salesmen. They shouted and yelled and rushed about, scaling ladders and rugby passing shoeboxes, subbuteo sets and badminton racquets to one another over the heads of customers, speaking all the while in rapid fire Teesside double speak. To shop there was like being in a Marx Brothers movie, or an episode of Top Cat voiced by Tony Mowbray and Chris Kamara."
I remember going in 1971 or 1972 after a brutal and bloody set of teeth extractions on me as a boy. To compensate I was given the day off school and was taken to JH's where I was bought Boro's Black and Blue (Inter style) away top and a rules of Cricket book. My memories of the Borough Road shop was that it had a high ceiling and lots of glass counters and smelt of leather and fresh cotton. It wasn' as frantic as Harry P's describes but he was midday mid week.
"The Hatfield brothers were fantastic salesmen. They shouted and yelled and rushed about, scaling ladders and rugby passing shoeboxes, subbuteo sets and badminton racquets to one another over the heads of customers, speaking all the while in rapid fire Teesside double speak. To shop there was like being in a Marx Brothers movie, or an episode of Top Cat voiced by Tony Mowbray and Chris Kamara."
I remember going in 1971 or 1972 after a brutal and bloody set of teeth extractions on me as a boy. To compensate I was given the day off school and was taken to JH's where I was bought Boro's Black and Blue (Inter style) away top and a rules of Cricket book. My memories of the Borough Road shop was that it had a high ceiling and lots of glass counters and smelt of leather and fresh cotton. It wasn' as frantic as Harry P's describes but he was midday mid week.