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The beginning of the end

Happy smiling faces in 1970 – twelve years before the closure of C  & T Harris in 1982. No irony then about the ‘Join Harris’ sign above the heads of the youngsters posing on the carnival float.  All their parents or relatives worked at Harris’s, and perhaps their children would have wanted to follow in… Read More The beginning of the end

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End of the line

The text of the Illustrated History of C&T Harris (Calne) Ltd. is finished but I am still editing it – ‘tinkering ‘ I call it. Moving sections around, deleting bits, putting the bits back, and so on. I am on my fifth version, and I have to lose 1000 words and I still keep finding… Read More End of the line