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Walter Hurst's sister gave piano lessons, next door to the shop, I was a pupil for a while, but I never could get the hang of it, this was because mi mam had bought an upright piano and she wasn't going to see it stood there doing nowt, so me being the eldest, I was selected to go for lessons, these stopped, when a bicycle we had propped up by the side of it and on which I was attempting to sit, fell over and broke my right arm, so off went the piano, also I well remember Mrs Bithells shop, as well as Maggie Greens, later on we had a chippy in the lane Crostons I think it was, that place is still there, but not as a chippy, just out side of our house was an iron tunnel which ran all the way up to where Bithells were, we would walk up there, our feet either side of the pipe to stop our feet getting wet, half way up, the tunnel narrowed, so then it was an hands and knees job till we reached the other end, sometimes to find it blocked with all sorts of debris, so we would have to turn round and make our way back, we used that way to go and rob the petticoat lane bommie, only to get chased back down by mostly the Wilson brothers, I remember one was Tony, dont remember the name of the other (senior moment here)