High Street

Albert (Lou) Newtown - Harness Maker

Abels - Cycle Shop

Arthur Bond - Guild Hotel

Bill Bailey - Tea Room

Miss Abraham - Post Office
R Anthony, F Brodie and G Howe and then ? Lingwood and Geoff Tuck were the postmen
Fred Howe and his daughter Betty Howe ran the post office in later years

Jacob Beckham - Hairdresser

Charles Eade - Newsagent

Fred Howe - Cycle Repair/Post office

Wool Shop - Miss Banson

Tom Purdy - Decorating/funeral
"Sold decorating materials,paint,wallpaper etc

There were no emulsions at the time so wall colouring was distemper in powder form, walpaper etc"

"Pre war tolling of St Mary's bell was usuallyonce with a pause for a man, twice for women and
three times for a child. This practice was stopped during WW2 and was not re-instated afterwards "

" For a funeral shops closed their doors, mourners wore black clothes if they could afford them
if not they wore black arm bands. In Church Street doors would be closed and curtains drawn"

George Back - Grocers/furniture

Ossie Wells - Clothiers
"You could also order and be measured for a suit.
The items were of such a high quality that many were still in use decades after"

"At the rear of this was an area known as workhouse yard,
where families lived before Mount Plesant was built"

Mr & Mrs Hunter - Sweets (51 High Street)

J T Moore - Chemist

Kenneth Faircloth - Photographer

Len Whitmore - Electrician

'Nuddy' Howell - Hairdresser

Etta Lee - Confectionary
" She would come round selling sweets on a saturday night"

Massingham - Grocer

Polly Wright - Seamstress/Dressmaker

Sid Hayes - Painter and decorator
Also made ice cream which he would go round selling at local events, mostly in the summer months

Faircloth - Butcher Had two shops at 57 and 61 High Street

Miss Wrights (Earnest 'Sunny' Wright)- Baker ......Later Bert Crouch
Ovens built by Dagless the builders
"The bread was very good. "On saturday a variety of special cakes would be made.
You could purchase corn and any type of feed if you kept rabbits, chickens etc
The room where the cakes were sold from was used by Barclays bank on Mondays the staff coming over from Fakenham "

Bush - Grocer
"He also smoked herrings and used a donkey and cart to deliver goods"

Sydney Curson - Grocer/ haberdasher (taken over by the Co-op in the war)

George Butcher - Coalman

Miss Struggles and Miss Cowdray - Fish and chips