My mum told me that my grandfather worked as an errand boy for Sargents shop in Swindon, this was before he started his apprenticeship at the GWR Works around the late 1920s. The only mention I could find for Sargents was in this online article from the Swindon Advertiser: https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/4057692.on-the-verge-of-a-fresh-start/
The writer stated: Funnily enough, our Villett Street salon was formerly Sargents garden tool shop and the Catherine Street salon was their main tool store.
I’m not sure which shop my grandfather would have worked at. Sadly neither street survived the town planners and the Brunel North Car Park.
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