| Pond shop 2004 |
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Description:
The 'pond shop' was closed and boarded up in 2004, and in summer 2005 it was partly demolished to improve the road and pavement at the historic narrow entry to the Common. |
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| Butler House |
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Description:
Butler House, opposite the World's End pub, was once a shop, as the recessed bay suggests. Among its owners was Mr. Cracknell. The gateway (extreme right) was once the entrance to the yard of the bakery. |
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| Old Post Office |
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Description:
This house was once the Post Office. It was built for Mr. Middleton, village postmaster for almost half a century. It is probably his children in the picture. |
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| Butcher's van |
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Description:
Oliver ('Crom') Blackburn poses with Samuel Blake's butcher's van outside Crom's thatched mother's cottage near the church. Note the telephone number! |
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| Old butcher's shop |
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Description:
Blake the Butcher had his wooden shop on the Common, just south of the school. Behind were barns and storerooms, where pigs were killed and carcases prepared for the shop. |
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| Butcher's Shop 1975 |
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The old wooden shop by the Common was replaced by a fine brick building (far left). By 1975 the butcher's shop was owned by Bensley-King and sold grocery, too. Today it is the Therapy Centre. |
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| Post Office, 1975 |
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Description:
Mr Harrod took over the Post Office business from the Middletons in 1969 and moved it to his paper shop in Birchfield Lane. In 1975 it was a Spar franchise. In the years since then it has expanded in size, both forwards and upwards. |
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| News by bike |
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Description:
Ernie Beare, District Newsagent for Mulbarton and other villages, with his 3-wheel cycle cart. The latter was made (or adapted) by Charlie Frost at the garage. |
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| Po Before Garage |
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Description:
The old Post Office (left), Wingfield Hall and Chapel (right) and in between the site of Charlie Frost's garage which was built after World War 1. |
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| Mrs Frost's shop |
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Description:
Mrs Frost's old shop on Norwich Road was a wooden hut in front of her house. She sold hardware, paints, china, and haberdashery. Between the wars it was demolished and a shop added to the side of their new house on an adjacent site. |
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| Tabor House shop |
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Description:
The Frost family had a new house with shop attached (left side) built on their land in Norwich Road. Here the drive is being laid and the old shop (end wall, extreme left) still stands. |
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| Manual Exchange |
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The manual telephone exchange behind the PO counter. The Middleton family had to be available night and day for 26 years. L-R: Mrs. R. Middleton; Elaine (Babs) and Audrey at the switchboard. In Feb. 1951 it was replaced by an automatic exchange. |
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| Fish n chip van |
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Description:
Russell's smoking fish-n-chip van was a familiar sight around Mulbarton during one evening a week. Pictured here at St Omer Close in 1976 - with the usual queue. |
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| Fish n chip shop |
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Description:
Russells opened a fish-n-chip shop on the industrial estate (behind what was then the village hall) in place of the van shown elsewhere in this section. |
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| Cracknell Bill 1 |
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Description:
Alfred Cracknell advertised himself as a draper and outfitter, as well as a grocer selling tea - all in his small shop opposite the World's End (now Butler House). Bill for maize from July 1937. |
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| Cracknell bill 2 |
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Another bill from Cracknell's shop opposite the World's End (now Butler House) issued in 1938. The heading advertises biscuits, and people remember the rows of open biscuit tins in the shop. |
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| Frost shop bill |
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Description:
This bill is from Mrs. Frost's hardware shop on the Norwich Road (now Tabor House). The bill, from 1940, is for decorating materials. |
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| Funnell Bakery Bill1 |
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Description:
Herbert Funnell's wonderful bread is still remembered. The bakery was behind the shop - more recently known as the 'pond shop'. This 1943 bill describes his business as a 'Steam Bakery' |
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