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Five hundred and and sixty-eight visits have been paid to
shops during the year, and, apart from a number of minor infringements,
which were dealt with, the provisions of the Shops Acts,
1912-34, have, generally speaking, been well observed.
There are 1,366 shops in the Borough engaged in the following
trades:—
Shops.
Antiques 5
Bakers 28
Butchers 54
Builders and Builders' Merchants 15
Carpets and Lino 6
Catering 81
Chemists 26
China and Glass 7
Cleaners and Dyers 7
Coal Merchants 31
Confectioners 94
Cooked Meats 8
Corn Chandlers 7
Drapers, Ladies' Outfitters, Milliners, etc. 125
Electrical, Radio and Gas Fittings 41
Fishmongers 23
Florists 14
Footwear 67
Furniture 37
Greengrocery 71
Grocers 128
Hairdressers 64
Herbalists and Health Food Stores 4
Household and Domestic Stores, Oil and
Colour Shops, and Bazaars 23
Ironmongers 14
Watches, Jewellery and Pawnbroker 17
Leather Goods and Saddlers 9
Milkshops 36
Music, etc. 8
Newsagents, Stationers, Bookshops and
Libraries 76