Sisters on trip down memory lane
Thursday, 9th September 1999.
TWO sisters paid a nostalgic visit to Haverhill and dropped into the News office in Queen Street which used to be their home.
Daphne Webb, 81, who now lives in Bury St Edmunds, and her sister Alywnn Sell are the daughters of Albert Suckling.
His family had been shoe makers for more than a century and ran the AR Suckling shoe shop in Haverhill until the early 1950s.
The sisters recall living over the shop, with their bedroom now one of the current News advertising department offices and the editorial office that of their parents.
"There were shoes everywhere but my mother would not have shoes in the house on a Sunday so all the boxes had to be moved out and then moved back in again the next day."
"We came back for a nostalgic look at the town and we thought we would love to see where we used to live.
Haverhill has changed so much we hardly recognised it," said Mrs Webb.
Daphne Webb, 81, who now lives in Bury St Edmunds, and her sister Alywnn Sell are the daughters of Albert Suckling.
His family had been shoe makers for more than a century and ran the AR Suckling shoe shop in Haverhill until the early 1950s.
The sisters recall living over the shop, with their bedroom now one of the current News advertising department offices and the editorial office that of their parents.
"There were shoes everywhere but my mother would not have shoes in the house on a Sunday so all the boxes had to be moved out and then moved back in again the next day."
"We came back for a nostalgic look at the town and we thought we would love to see where we used to live.
Haverhill has changed so much we hardly recognised it," said Mrs Webb.
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