Elizabeth Lyle (Cissie) at Liston & Brown’s Fishmongers, Slateford Road
1930
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Great Auntie Cissie hated working in the fishmongers (a family business) and as soon as the second world war broke out she travelled down to Birmingham to do war work. She only returned to live in Newhaven when she was in her eighties .
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