BARDNEY TRADESPEOPLE 1945 (Alphabetical order)

FERRY ROAD: STATION ROAD: Mr Blyth Newsagent; Mr William (Billy) Bones: Grocer; (Trained by Mr Treadgold) Mr Burnett: Taylor; (next door to Todd’s Butchers shop) Mr Ron Cartwright: Builder; Pre-washed and packed Vegetables; (Mill Yard) Mr Herbert Clift: Baker; Grocer; Mr John Wilfred Clift: Baker; (Went bankrupt in the 1950’s) Mr George Cook: Saddler (Owner); (Freddie Offord was the saddler) Mr Dawson: Butcher, Slaughter man; (Railway Yard) Mrs Jamieson: Sweets; (Sold from their back door – John Ancliffe’s house) Mr Jubb: Milkman; (Half way down Wood Lane) Mr Buxton Harvey Kent Baker; (Corner of Church Lane) Mr Sam Haines: Timber Merchant; (Wood Lane) Mr George Henson: Bicycle shop – also charged accumulators; (Angel Inn Car Park) Mr Lee & Son: Garage; Bicycles; Car Sales and repairs; Motorcycles; Petrol/Diesel; There was a Post Office (opposite Lee & Son) Mr Walter Lintin: Chip Shop; (Next to Mr Henson) Messrs. Quincey & Holden: Grocer; Millinery; (Delivered with vans) Mr Cyril Seston: Hairdresser; Clocks & Watch repairs; (Mill Yard entrance) Mr Harold Smithson: Miller; Mr Taylor: Grocer; Cigarettes; Sweets; (Sold to the visiting fishermen and the Irish labour at the sugar factory) Mr Thompson: Tobacconist; Mr William & Charlie Todd Butcher; (Garrells Shop) He had a slaughterhouse in Mill Yard.

Information by Ben Clift Page 1 of 2 ABBEY LANE: ABBEY ROAD: Mr Blades: Sweets; Cakes; Biscuits; Mr Sid Everton: Horse & Dray Dealer; Vegetables; Sweets; Biscuits; (Farm next to Wallace Wilson) Mr Paul: Milk Man; (Top end of Abbey Lane – he had PoW’s delivering milk during the war) Mr (Ginger) Simpson: Shoe Shop; Bookmaker; Mr Stallybrass: Mr Wallace Wilson: Milk Man; EAST STREET: SILVER STREET: Mr Brackenbury: Chemist; Grocer; Paraffin; Doctor; Dentist; Miss Daubney: Sweets; Biscuits; (Sold from her front room) Mr Gus Parker: Butcher; (Sold the shop to Chapman’s, who changed it to the current Post Office. He moved next to the Billiard Club and eventually sold it to Bert Beebe. Mr Parker bought Lee’s garage, ran a number of coaches and ran the Butchers shop). Mrs Smith: Fruit; (Smallholding) FOUNDRY STREET: QUEEN STREET: Cooperative Society: Grocer; Butcher; Baker; General Store; (Stables and Warehouse opposite the Black Horse Inn) Mr Cecil Marks: Wood Yard; Undertaker; (Where the Fire Station was, on Queen Street) Mr Herbert Todd: Grocer; Sweets; Cigarettes; (Where Barry is today) WRAGBY LANE: WRAGBY ROAD: Mr Smith: Coal Man; (Garden Centre) Mr Townell: Wood Yard; Fencing; (Eric Pacey’s Yard)

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