Comments on: Your Grandad’s Football – updates to the site http://www.yourgrandadsfootball.co.uk/updates/2010/02/your-grandads-football-updates-to-the-site/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:01:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Withers http://www.yourgrandadsfootball.co.uk/updates/2010/02/your-grandads-football-updates-to-the-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2 David Withers Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:01:41 +0000 http://www.yourgrandadsfootball.co.uk/updates/?p=11#comment-2 My father, Ken Withers, bought the Belsize Avenue newsagents shop from Mrs Featherstone in 1974 - and increased the turnover by 1200% by the end of his first year! Unfortunately he died in 1977 at the age of 59 and, though my half-sister and her mother kept it going for a while, the shop eventually passed to someone unknown to me. My father, Ken Withers, bought the Belsize Avenue newsagents shop from Mrs Featherstone in 1974 – and increased the turnover by 1200% by the end of his first year!

Unfortunately he died in 1977 at the age of 59 and, though my half-sister and her mother kept it going for a while, the shop eventually passed to someone unknown to me.

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