Rockchopper 10 #1 Posted August 12, 2019 Does anyone remember a shop top right of Broxholme Road where it meets Hackthorn Road? Recently moved into property and would be great to have confirmation that it was a shop originally etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #2 Posted August 12, 2019 (edited) Hi Rockchopper - this is evidently No 70 Broxholme Road, and it was indeed a shop. As long ago as 1911, White's/Kelly's Directory shows "Charles Hewitt, shopkeeper" at that address. Kelly's directories continue to show it as a shop until the 1971 edition "D. Phelan, shopkeeper", but the shop must have closed soon afterwards and the 1974 directory (the last one published) just gives "Peter Hallam" as householder. Edited August 12, 2019 by hillsbro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Rockchopper 10 #3 Posted August 25, 2019 Hi hillsbro Apologies for taking so long to respond. Am very grateful for your reply, thank you for taking the time and effort to do so. Have been having a quick look on Ancestry today as it's free this weekend and have picked up the 1911 Census record for the house with the Hewitts living there...interestingly with Emma (Charles's wife) as the shopkeeper...Charles is a 'milk salesman' at the time! Thanks again 🙂 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro 28 #4 Posted August 25, 2019 Hi Rockchopper - yes, I'd also looked at the 1911 census return (as an inveterate family history buff - an eccentric one, according to Mrs Hillsbro... ☺️) and saw that Emma Hewitt kept the shop. Here are later shopkeepers, from the directories I have: 1925 - John Sellers 1931-65 - Horace Turton 1971 – D. Phelan You may like to see this large-scale OS map of the area. https://i.postimg.cc/zBB3zx7g/001.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
