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No 4 Store
Park Road opened in 1894

Hilda Maxted is on the right c1910

Park Road Grocery Shop (Dept No. 4) was opened in 1894.

There were three staff in 1926: H. Cox, E. G. Strudwick, and A. Bradshaw.

The Butcher's shop was at the rear, with stables and slaughter house built in 1887.

The attached houses, named "Industrial Cottages" were built in 1892.

The floor above the shop was the site of the Co-op's "Penny Bank"

Photograph by C.F.Chapman, 1926


Inside the shop in the 1940s









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