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Leston's history also recalls how, "on winter Saturdays, whenever Liverpool were playing at home, Thomas and Duncan Norman would … walk all the way to Anfield to watch the game from a vantage point immediately behind the goalkeeper".

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

He was also adored by his staff: the official history by the curator of the shop's memory, John Leston, relates the case of an employee being sent to the dentist to have a tooth removed and later, when ill, being taken on a boat trip to Llandudno with her fiance to recuperate at her employer's expense.

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

He was also adored by his staff: the official history by the curator of the shop's memory, John Leston, relates the case of an employee being sent to the dentist to have a tooth removed and later, when ill, being taken on a boat trip to Llandudno with her fiance to recuperate at her employer's expense.

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

Leston's history also recalls how, "on winter Saturdays, whenever Liverpool were playing at home, Thomas and Duncan Norman would … walk all the way to Anfield to watch the game from a vantage point immediately behind the goalkeeper".

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

He had "a natural flair for fashion and as a result, as well as one of the cheapest, he also had one of the most attractive shops in Liverpool", writes Leston.

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

He had "a natural flair for fashion and as a result, as well as one of the cheapest, he also had one of the most attractive shops in Liverpool", writes Leston.

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

Jean Leston, transport policy officer at the wildlife organisation WWF-UK, believed ministers were playing to the gallery.

Budget 2011: Surprise fuel duty concession will cost oil industry £10bn 2011

This prompted the following delightfully witty verse by the American comic writer Bert Leston Taylor 1866–1921:

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

This prompted the following delightfully witty verse by the American comic writer Bert Leston Taylor 1866–1921:

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

And Leston and Helena have made this tool I have here in my hand.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw