Storyline
Got A Job
Circa 1980

Location (Map)
Pearce's Grocers, Croydon, England

Notes
Bob: By 1980, I had managed to get a job on a stall on Surrey Street market selling eggs (imported from Denmark, past their sell-by date, sometimes riddled with maggots) - a lovely job, especially in winter. My best mate Pete Wiggs worked there too, which made it more bearable. The stall holder was called Mrs Harcourt and had the exact same bearing, temperament and chilling tone as Margaret Thatcher. I was paid a pound an hour but would nick a tenner from my money apron to enable me to buy more records from Beano's which, happily, had by now moved to premises literally next door to the market stall and was now spread over two floors. (Source: Issue #12 of An Antidote To Indifference)

The shop was owned by Mrs Doreen Harcourt. A teenage Bob may have arranged to have a Saturday job in "Pearce's Grocers" in Surrey Street just to be near his favourite record shop (2 doors away!).