High Street

High St.
(Southerly side)


This is a picture of High Street sometime in the 1930's or 1940's looking East.
It is much busier now; so much so that I had difficulty photographing some of the shops without a vehicle or two blocking the shot. You will also notice in the recent shot below that the road has been widened and the footpaths now are not cobbled, as in this view, but tarmaced instead.

Gill's fresh flowers, fruit and vegetable


This is the coffee shop Rich Aroma

 


This is 'The Gallery' which is a unisex hairdressers.

 


Tarvin Methodist Church
The Beauty Shop

This is 'No. 77 Interiors'


'Imagination' is a ladies dress shop

This was a 'Londis' shop but it is now an independent grocery and off-licence.

The shop sells the usual range of goods you would expect from a grocery plus a range of wines and spirits. It is in competition with the supermarkets but the nearest one is five miles away and if you just want a pint of milk it isn't worth starting the car and making the journey. It is also in competition with Gunnery's but that shop is more up market and both shops seem to attract enough customers.

This is the pharmacy.
Like several of the village shops the pharmacy does more than its name implies. It dispenses prescription pills and medicines but it also sells patent medicines for coughs and colds, for headaches, for skin problems, for relief of aches and pains and a range of other complaints. It sells hair and skin care products, reading glasses, walking sticks, greetings cards and it also runs a Xerox machine for public use.


 


High Street in January 2006 looking West



The Northerly side
There are only two businesses on this side - Limestar Tropicals and Gunnery's

Limestar Tropicals, established in 1974, is a pet shop housed in the old Public Hall. The shop sells all sorts of pets from hamsters to snakes and it's speciality is tropical fish, hence the name. It also sells the paraphenalia which goes with pet keeping , fish tanks, heaters, hamster cages, exercise wheels and so on.

 

 

Gunnery's shop is an old established (1820) business which was part of G.Gunnery & Co.'s grocers and corn merchants 'empire'. The derelict looking cottage which can just be seen to the left of the shop was the bakery. The shop still retains some of its old fittings and you can still have your bacon sliced to any thickness you require on an old fashioned bacon slicer. But the character is more that of an up market delicatessan

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