Timothy Whites and Taylors

Timothy Whites and Taylors the chemist sported a chipped white set of scales outside. For a penny you would stand on the footplate and see the worst as the big black hand swung around the doleful white face to reveal your deepest fears. By hunching over it with bags of shopping conveniently held at either side like a horses blinkers, the embarrassing news could be hidden from prying eyes. A woman's secret could remain hidden! Not that many Redditch people were fat from over eating, most people bore the results of sparse times, getting plenty of exercise from carrying heavy shopping bags home from the town centre

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