Elm Grove
36 Elm Grove
From c.1954 this was Mrs Ayling’s wool store. When I was around 10 years old I learnt to crochet, and I often visited here in the 1970s.
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Elm Grove
167 Elm Grove
From the beginning of the 1900s this building was a tobacconist and confectioners ran by the Smallwood family.
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64 Elm Grove
64 Elm Grove was a fishmongers around 1908. It was run by H Sherin up until c.1914 when Herbert Peters took over and ran his fishmongers business until c.1926.
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74 & 76 Elm Grove
C. 1922 74 Elm Grove became Harry Ernest Taylor’s chemist, whilst number 76 (the corner) was trading as a grocers for many years previous to this.
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78 Elm Grove
The earliest record I could find for this address was in 1869, when it was a bakery run by a W.G Piper.
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84 Elm Grove
The earliest record I could find of this building being a public house was in 1885.
Dairies
86 Elm Grove
It seems that 86 Elm Grove was a private residence up until c.1929 when it became Warren Farm Dairies.
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110 Elm Grove
From 1917 110 Elm Grove was a Drapers store ran by Mrs Hobden. The first mention of a Girl Guide’s shop was c.1958.
