MADAM, In answer to your question for more information about the shop JC Vine – the business was started by my grandparents, Jesse and Alice Vine in 1910. They met when they were apprenticed to the drapery trade in Bristol. Jesse came from Dorset and Alice from Brampton Abbots. The original shop was sited in Broad Street, it later moved to 9/10/11 Market Place and became quite a department store, selling children's clothes, underwear, millinery, haberdashery, materials, dresses, coats, knitwear and school uniform. The family lived in the spacious flat over the shop and my father, who was one of three sons, eventually took over the shop and ran it until he retired in 1965. The shop was then rented out and eventually sold. There were some wonderful characters who worked in the shop, including Miss Tommey, who served on the corset counter and Miss Creswell, who helped her parents run a pub in the evenings. Miss Case ran the hat department and knew all her clients and bought hats to match them. Mr Castree was the odd job man and stoked up the boiler, which was based in the cellar and heated the shop through a huge metal grid. He also swept the board floors first sprinkling sand to keep the dust down. He wore a trilby hat and constantly had a cigarette in his mouth. Mrs Philipps, Ross