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Date of photo: 1960	Picture source: picturethepast.org.uk
The Harleys Vaults was situated at 4 Pepper Street. This pub closed in 1960.
Harley’s Wine and Spirits Merchant was owned by my mother’s ‘Uncle Harley’. He was married to Clara Deudney and had two children, Kathleen who was a spinster, and Ronald who became an architect. William Harley died before I was born in 1950. My mother (H. Joyce Deudney) (1914-2012) had been down the caves under the shop which were the vaults where the wine and spirits were stored. All kept at a perfectly constant even temperature owing to their depth below ground level in the rock. The only other detail I’m aware of is that the rest of the family thought he was rather peculiar, in that he used to take four huge silver candlesticks, and all the table silver, up stairs every night and put it under his bed. (Maybe he was a prime target for robbery at the time.)
Sarah Davy (August 2020)
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