This is an intruiging place in Piccadily used as a second hand furniture shop. It is one of those places where you can spend ages just browsing around, sometimes you might see something that will interest you and sometimes you will not. The name derives from a former use of the building as a fruit and vegetable wholesaler who used to run a business from here. Wallace is the name that springs to mind though I may be wrong, there was also another fruit and veg wholesaler in Swinegate and may be mixing up with them. Wallace used to have green trucks of about five ton capacity that did the rounds of the shops in the countryside. The driver that came to our village was Tom Turpin and most people thought of the business as being Tom's as he seemed to have a fairly free hand to set prices for each customer as he saw fit without instruction from his boss in York. Sadly, as the village sjops declined the business dissapeared.
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