Image: (c) Carol Homewood
Many lunchtimes spent in there buying a quarter of sherbert or sweet peanuts. I'm not sure when the Candy Box finally closed up shop and was converted into a house.
It started off back in the late 1890s as a tobacconists shop. In 1917 it became a confectioners and remained so right up until its closure in the late 1980s/90s. Many changes of ownership over the last century.
From the beginning of the 1900s this building was a tobacconist and confectioners ran by the Smallwood family.
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Work has now commenced on controversial plans to alter the traffic flow and accessibility of the area between St. Peter’s and Pool Valley.
Days are numbered for most of the buildings along Pelham Terrace, Lewes Road.
Demolition has started of the old Pink Coconut Night Club.
Built in 1933. Closed as a cinema in the late 1970s, it became a Bingo Hall. This closed in 1997.
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2 thoughts on “Elm Grove – The Candy Box”
My nana Mrs Bessie Rowse owned 108 Elm Grove before and during the war. It was a sweet shop. I loved being there. In 1948 we came to Australia as a family. Not sure when my nana sold the shop. I have been tryinMyg to find out when the shop was converted back to terrace houses. I went back for a trip to the UK in 2002 and it was still a shop. Also my brother went a few years later and then it was still a shop. Wonderful memories.
M. Venning
My nana Mrs Bessie Rowse owned 108 Elm Grove before and during the war. It was a sweet shop. I loved being there. In 1948 we came to Australia as a family. Not sure when my nana sold the shop. I have been trying to find out when the shop was converted back to terrace houses. I went back for a trip to the UK in 2002 and it was still a shop. Also my brother went a few years later and then it was still a shop. Wonderful memories.
M. Venning