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I have done something similar to this before but from a considerably earlier guidebook. These are from a late 1970s Town Guide, and some readers…

EVEN before I had gone out to buy last Friday’s Marlow Free Press (and, no, I don’t get a free copy!) an email arrived asking if I had a picture of Lynch’s little D.I.Y. shop in Spittal Street that had been mentioned in that edition. Best I can do is “LYNC” rather than “LYNCH’S” and that is picture 1, a photo probably intended to focus more on Gardner’s Cooked Meat Shop next door: home cooked spam was their speciality. I have fond memories of Monty Python’s “Spam Son...