Stuart Laidlaw’s-Memories of my father Francis John Laidlaw b.30/09/1911-d.30/04/1986
1949
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Brook and Son were situated at 87 George Street.
Dad worked there prior to and after the war until they closed in the early 1950s.
After several years with H. Spencer and H. Samuel on Leith Street, (see photo of top of Leith Street in the 1960s which shows both shops a few yards apart) he returned to the same address in the early 1960s by which time it was
Hamilton and Inches.
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