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NORTH SIDE |
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Here
is Tamar Avenue |
1 - The first
property on the south side was a shop but it was
empty in the 1950s and 1960s, having presumably
stopped trading after Station Road ceased to be a
through road into Goschen Street. |
2 -
The first property on the north side was a house. |
13 -
This was one of Solomon Stephens' bakeries but was
taken on by Alfred J Jewell by 1955. In the 1960s
it was the GUPA-P tyre shop, although I think it was
a store rather than a retail shop. It looked very
strange seeing the tyres stacked on shelves like any
other commodity. The last bus stop on
the
19 was on the lamp-post outside the shop but the
buses usually stopped before it, then dropped down
Warleigh Avenue and reversed back to the terminus on
the other side of Station Road. |
12 -
Number 12 was first occupied by Reginald W
Helliwell, draper. This was one of two in the Road
and sold all the usual wools, ribbons and cotton on
wooden spools, ideal for use on Dinky Toy lorries.
The terminus of
the
19 bus route was outside the shop.
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Here
is Warleigh Avenue |
Warleigh Avenue |
15 -
Reginald F Gordon was described as a decorator but
we would call it a Do it Yourself shop these days.
He sold paint and tools and I particularly remember
his wallpaper pattern books, which he let you take
home to look at. |
14 -
Jack Edward Holman's (1921-1997) general store at the bottom of
our road was a particular favourite because he owned
a bus which he used as a mobile shop. Painted cream
and brown, it was an old Bedford WTB.
The business was taken over in the 1960s by Messrs C
and D Bonser. |
27 -
I do not remember this shop at all in use as a
fruiterers by Thomas Birchall. The premises were
empty in the 1960s. |
26 -
Thomas A Wilson was a proper grocer. He sold cold
meats and had a meat slicer on the counter. |
Here
is Beatrice Avenue |
Beatrice Avenue |
41 -
Montague Clark, boot & shoe repairer, which I
largely remember for the smell of the leather and
polish and the luggage labels he used to put on the
shoes taken in for repair. |
28 -
This shop must have been empty for much of the
fifties but was occupied by Eric Maunder Rundle in
the 1960s as an electrical shop. Here you could buy
radios, torches and batteries, for example. |
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40 -
One of my favourite shops belonged to R C & J
Stephens, newsagents, although I am conscious that I
never explored all its dark corners. Comics were
the thing here and Cowboy stories. |
Here
is Barton Avenue |
Barton
Avenue |
43 -
G Kenshole, ladies' hairdresser. I had no
experience of this shop as Mother never used them. |
42/44
- Keyham Barton Conservative Club. It never struck
me at the time, being too young for politics, but
what was the Conservative Club doing in such a
Dockyard, working men's neighbourhood? The entrance
was in Barton Avenue. |
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46 -
I am sure this shop was empty in the 1960s but had
been a second-hand clothes shop in 1952/53 belonging
to a Mrs M A Underhill. |
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48 -
This general store belonged to Sarah Coombes in the
early 1950s and to John White in 1955. This was
one of our regular shops, "Mrs White's", and most of
our vegetables came from here. |
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50 -
First Mrs G E Morshead's and then Mrs G A Jones's,
another general store. I do not recall going in
here at all. |
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52 -
Hicks & Congdon, confectioners, known as the Red
Circle. A misleading shop because alongside
the sweets and chocolate it also sold interesting
things like Matchbox toys and what later went on to
become N gauge model railways. A fascinating
window for a little boy with very little pocket
money! It also had a circulating library in
the back room, where upon payment of a subscription
you could borrow a book. |
55 -
Yes, Keyham really did have a Mr Bean. Mr E J Bean,
toy dealer. A lovely old man, the sort you imagine
running a toy shop. Many of my Dinky Toys came from
here and probably quite a bit of the old 3-rail
model railway, too. There was lots on display in
glass cabinets, including fireworks during October,
but you had to ask to handle the goods, as was
common in those days. He later moved premises to
Number 79. |
54 -
J E McClewer, shopkeeper. Another general store
that I mostly remember for its display of fruit and
vegetables along the left-hand wall. Not much used
by the Moseley family. |
Here
is Townshend Avenue |
Townshend Avenue |
57 -
A W Ware, ironmonger. Full to the brim with all
things hardware. |
56 -
This was the grocery department of the Plymouth
Co-operative Society. Two long counters up each
side of the shop from front to back. Chairs to sit
on and assistants in the uniform of brown
lightweight coat. Remember the little tickets you
were given when quoting your Co-op divvy number? We
never lost them, though. |
65 -
Doctor's surgery. |
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67 -
T B Harvey Ltd, chemists. Next door to the Doctor's
(J B Stauffer), Mr Thomas Boon Harvey was the
poshest person in the road: he wore a bow-tie. He
was a local Councillor, that's why! |
66 -
The butchery department of the Plymouth Co-operative
Society was located here but I have no clear
recollections of the inside. The butchery closed on
August 29th 1987. |
Here
is Cotehele Avenue |
Cotehele Avenue |
69 -
I have never understood the difference between a
shopkeeper, grocer and provision merchant, but
Frederick M Potter's was definitely listed as the
last-named. Previously owned by G V Williamson.
The request bus stop for
the
19 outside on the lamp-standard
was referred to by us boys as Potters Bar. |
68 -
Henry Thomas Whitbread, Keyham Barton Post Office
and stationery store. Mind you there wasn't much
stationery to keep in a shop like this in those
days, just basic Basildon Bond No. 2 writing pads
and envelopes, manila envelopes, rulers and
pencils. The postmaster and his daughter, Ena,
arrived for work on a huge motorcycle. The rather
utilitarian interior contained the original
telephone call office from before the advent of
call-boxes. Ena retired on January 28th 2004 at the
age of 78 and the post office is now closed. The
Whitbread's had run it for 55 years. |
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68A
- Peter Thomas McArthur, watch repairer. A very
small shop adjoining the post office where you could
buy a watch as well as having one repaired.
There was a request bus stop
for
the 19 between this shop and Miss Moist's.
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79 -
Eric Maunder Rundle, shopkeeper. I don't know what
Mr Rundle stocked while he was here as the premises
were taken over by Mr Bean, the toy dealer, and Mr
Rundle moved down to Number 28, where he stocked
electrical goods. See the reference to Mr Bean at
Number 55 above. This is the shop I most remember
and most visited. Chris Bollard recalls the chewing
gum slot machine by the end of the left-hand window:
the screw holes are still there. Paul Hobbs recalls
the fireworks displayed in a glass display cabinet
and that Mr & Mrs Bean lived at 3 Epworth Terrace,
just over the railway bridge at the top of Moor
View. |
78 - Miss L Moist, draper, the second shop
in Station Road for wools, ribbons, cotton and
knitting-needles. |
Here
is Maristow Avenue |
Maristow Avenue |
81 -
William J J Clemow, hairdresser. When hairdressing
was a "short back and sides" instead of by numbers.
There was a small sort of lobby where he sold hair
cream, etc., and the barbers was inside another
door. You sat with your back to the window and
facing a mirror so I could always see when
the
19 bus
went by. |
80 -
Eastmans Ltd, butchers. Part of the national chain
of butchers. |
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92 -
Frederick John Cater, fried fish dealer. This meant
he sold fish and chips and a cod and two pennyworth
were very much enjoyed, wrapped in the ubiquitous
newspaper, of course He sold fresh fish, too, I
seem to remember. |
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Here
is Moor View |