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Description: | c1930s.
Image shows Joe Cain, taken outside his Boot & Shoe repairing business at number 29 Church Lane. Joe Cain was born in Headingley in 1909. As a two-year old he had contracted polio. He grew up to marry Melene Large in 1955 who had also suffered from polio in childhood. Joe Cain ran this business in Church Lane until 1957 when he went to work with Remploy. He remained there until his retirement in 1973. He died in 1986 and his wife died in 2007. In the small shop window there are adverts for shoe polish and films showing at the Capitol in Green Road. Frisco Jenny starring Ruth Chatterton and Louis Calhern was released in 1933, and Silver Dollar with Edward G. Robinson and Bebe Daniels came out in 1932. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Church Lane Green Road Capitol Joe Cain | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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