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The year is 1975.

The Vietnam War has just come to an end, David Bowie's Space Oddity is riding high in the charts and Tony and Christine Booth have just opened their greengrocers in Blackley .

Half a century later the husband and wife are still here. Their little shop A&C Booth on Hill Lane is thought to be the last traditional greengrocers in north Manchester.

But not for much longer. On November 1, the couple, both 79, will be hanging up their aprons as they finally retire.

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It will bring the shutters down on a lifetime of hard work and close a small chapter in the history of Manchester's high streets. When Tony and Christine first started out supermarkets were sti

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