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Collections: Elm Grove Area

167 Elm Grove

From the beginning of the 1900s this building was a tobacconist and confectioners ran by the Smallwood family.
Tagged as: Elm Grove, Shops
167 Elm Grove (c) Carol Homewood www.brightongirl.org.uk

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They moved their business from here c.1909 and took over the premises on the corner of Bernard Road.

From 1910 up until the Second World War this confectioners was run by the Lucas family. For a while after the war it became a secondhand furniture shop ran by Aaron Jenkinson.

From the early 1970's this became Tobias's sweet shop. Mr Tobias was a lovely man who had a lot of time for us children. We spent hours in there chatting with him. Swizzle sticks were my favourite sweet. I can still remember the rows of jars of sweets on the shelves behind the counter.

Also known as: Tobias’s sweet shop
Date of photograph/s: c. 2014
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