first of all my apologies for being away for so long,I was so pleased to see the photo,s and comments that I missed, One in particular was about Sapcotes the builders where my mother worked as a cleaner for some time [Roughly around the early 50s] she also worked at a small engineering firm on the sandpits which I remember as Chiltern tools. At about the same time my father worked at Wilmot Breedon as a commissionaire, Earlier he had worked for Broughs leather in Camden st near the icknield st junction and Prudens barber shop on the corner diagonally opposite Baines the bread shop [oooh those rock cakes and drippin cakes], on the other corner was Howards paper shop.
this is why these forums are so interesting as we get older, They often come up with reminders of places sometimes long forgotten, Many thanks to all and compliments of the season to you and yours, Barry Lee