V.W. Lane, Butcher's
Stephen Eldridge (August 2017) writes;
"I've just read the piece about Mr Vic Lane's butcher's shop at 131 Bath Road with interest as I knew Mr & Mrs Lane since my mother was the "Miss Rae" mentioned in paragraph 10. As a matter of accuracy her name before she married was spelled "Reay". It was at Lane's that she and my father met when he was at one time the butcher's boy, but even after they married in 1947 Mr Lane continued to refer to her as "Miss Reay" right up to his death. I was once introduced to a good friend and customer of his as "Miss Reay's eldest son", which causes some raised eyebrows back in the early 1960s and needed some quick words of explanation."
"I've just read the piece about Mr Vic Lane's butcher's shop at 131 Bath Road with interest as I knew Mr & Mrs Lane since my mother was the "Miss Rae" mentioned in paragraph 10. As a matter of accuracy her name before she married was spelled "Reay". It was at Lane's that she and my father met when he was at one time the butcher's boy, but even after they married in 1947 Mr Lane continued to refer to her as "Miss Reay" right up to his death. I was once introduced to a good friend and customer of his as "Miss Reay's eldest son", which causes some raised eyebrows back in the early 1960s and needed some quick words of explanation."