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i went into his shop when i was about 10.
just over the road from the cinema (now the eurostar carpark) it wasn't even a shop just a small single story brick building with a counter and the workshop behind and a tall chap wearing a workshop overcoat (everyone was tall to me then he could have been 5ft nothing) i wanted some ball bearings to put back in my bike as most of them were lost in the grass in the back garden, i don't think there was any other bike shop in town.
i can't remember much else but the blue in the top picture was the only colour i ever saw a ken james bike painted.
this was 30 years ago and regrettably i never got to order a ken james as cycling wasn't part of my life again until after i hit 30.