Doris’s Doris’s was a small shop on the corner in Devonshire Square Runcorn. They sold groceries and cooked meat and cheeses.

She made lovely boiled ham sandwiches the best in town, and the best butter was to die for, her cakes used to melt in your mouth.

I think this is the reason I spent most of my hard earned wages in her shop on my dinnertime, I worked at Unsworth Bros.also on Devonshire Square.

Another attraction at that time was most of the girls from the solicitors went for their dinner too, so it gave us lads from the men’s wear shop a chance to chat them up.

In fact my workmate married one of them many years later.

So it was love among the boiled ham, buns, and cream cakes that smiled on him that day.

Doris also owned a ladies dress shop next door to her sandwich shop.