Shoemaker and repair shop off the High Street

Cilla Bachop, from Vancouver, Canada, asks: "I wonder if anyone might have information about The Modern - a shoemaker and repair shop in business perhaps during the 1930s, into the 1950s. My dates may be wrong, but I have been told the business was located somewhere off the High Street."

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