A SWEET shop in Radcliffe is well-remembered by some of our readers.

Mr Ian Howarth tells us about the old Pickup shop in Sandford Street.

The property, we are told, was known a Jemima's and was a favourite place for youngsters to buy their goodies.

Mr Howarth said: "It was lit with oil lamps and they sold toffee and bottles of pop. They sold some groceries as well, but that didn't interest us."

Another reader who remembers the shop, Mrs Edith Lever, believes that anyone who lived in the area or went to school there in the 1930s would remember Jemima.

Mrs Lever said: "She was the owner and always dressed in black. In fact, word went around among the five- and six-year-olds that she was a witch.

"The interior was very dark and I think the floor was flagged. That did not stop us from going in for our Uncle Joe's mintballs, liquorice shoelaces and gobstoppers, but I was always glad to get out.

"Although the shop is no longer there, I wouldn't be surprised if Jemima is hovering around in Sandford Street."

Do any other readers have memories of particular shops and the people who kept them?