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Jurecki's

23/4/2017

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Who remembers this shop at the start of Lower Largo's Main Street? In the west part of what was originally Defoe Place, this building housed the village Post Office for many years during the first half of the 20th century. Now 3 Main Street and converted into a house, you can still make out traces today of where old signage used to be. If you have memories of this shop, please comment. What did you buy here?

​Another of Max Jurecki's shops was in the centre of the parade of shops on Leven Road, Lundin Links (see below - with 'newsagent' sign). I recall buying comics, Barr's bottles, sweets and chocolate bars from here during the 1970s and 1980s.

Cafes and catering were also part of the Jurecki business - more to come on the Emsdorf Street shop and cafe in the next post.
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John Band
24/4/2017 11:28:11 pm

I remember Yanick (Maximillion) Jurecki's shops well.He was a great local character,sadly missed.I mostly went into the Lower Largo shop for sweets,lemonade etc.Often when short of cash I would search my Dads trucks and vans for his mens empty Barrs bottles or pinch from their collection in the workshop and take bags full down to Jurecki's to cash in for sweets,however eventually I was refused as I had not purchased the full bottles from the shop and was becoming a pest!.Dads men weren't too happy either when they discovered who was pinching their bottles!,happy days.

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Annie Pearson
3/3/2020 12:49:23 am

I remember Yanick when he used to do the bakery round and he would slip me a little something and give me a wink.

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COLIN
15/10/2017 09:20:21 am

remember this shop well, used to buy sweets there on my way to visit a great aunt who lived on main street... she used to work in a shop, it might have been this one..great aunt Minnie was a mine of information regarding largo, its thanks to her that I got interested in my family history from Largo.

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Gill
6/8/2020 04:43:01 am

I remember Yanik's shop I think the first time I was allowed out on my own at aged four was to walk there and get my comic. The shop had all sorts of things sweeties buckets and spades and gifts for holiday makers.I also remember the machines outside I think they sold bubblegum and gobstoppers wasnt allowed them.

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Vintage Lundin Links and Largo
6/8/2020 04:45:10 am

I wasn't allowed the bubble gum or gobstoppers either...

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John Potter
27/1/2021 06:55:27 am

My Father Thomas Potter had this shop before Jurecki and we lived above the shop

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Dixie
20/11/2021 01:04:16 pm

I remember your dad being in the shop John

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Stuart Potter
2/2/2021 06:58:40 pm

I was a paperboy and then a waiter for The Jureckis.

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Judy Rankin née Smith
8/1/2022 07:47:39 am

Worked in the wee wooden cafe selling cokes & crisps, then in the shop & cafe as a teenager in the late 60s

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Kenneth Simpson
16/10/2022 09:45:20 am

My mother Margaret (Rita) Simpson nee McMillan was evacuated to Lundin Links from Glasgow in early 1940 and I believe she and my Gran were billeted with Jean Wilson. Yanick's future mother in law. In the mid 60's early 70's we regularly visited Lower Largo and often visited Yanick in both Lundin Links and Lower largo.
When I was a child we used to stay in Drumeldrie and walked along the beach into Lower Largo to get ice cream from the Cafe.

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Bruce G Taylor
11/2/2025 03:47:45 am

When on holiday; we holidayed in Lundin Links for several years of my early childhood. I bought good quality models from Jurecki's; a traing pond yachy, an RAF launch WW II and a motor cruiser both made by Vospers.

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Bruce G Taylor
11/2/2025 03:48:25 am

Stayed at Clayton's 15 Emdorf Road

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Marlyn Longstaff
13/10/2025 08:33:34 am

I remember the cafe well,remember the old woman that worked there she wore all white .can anyone tell me her name.it was early 70s

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