“6: The Market Place: Earlier this century there was a wool warehouse next to the Town Hall. Our present Post Office was an ironmongers. Then came The Golden Lion leading to Race, the baker, and Cammell’s drapers shop. The latter gave rise to the old joke ‘a race between a camel and a lion with an angel (the Inn) looking on’. The low stone house with the narrow garden, towards the left of the photograph, is said to be Arbroath House and Fenby’s general dealers occupies the site of Barclays Bank.”
From “Loftus in old picture postcards” by Jean Wiggins. Reproduced by permission.