From the 1930s is was run by Frederick Wakeling. In the 1970s it was known as Verver's General Stores.
219 Elm Grove – Homewoods Store
Known to most of us as Homewoods Store. Homewoods set up shop here in 1936.
54 May Road
This corner shop was once a General Stores.
Image: (c) Carol Homewood
Also known as: Verver’s General Stores
Date of photograph/s: 2017
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