16 Gardner Street

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 25 Sep 2011

Another shop with a long history of rapid turnovers of businesses. J Combridge ran another butcher at 79-80 North Road until 1907; Gardner, handy name for this street, moved his antiques business to Image; Jacob Lenz may have been related to some more Lenz's at Image and Image; one wonders whether Walter Pullingers descendants run the shoe shop bearing his name in Bond Street or that Ransoms, the hardware store, is related to that of the same name in Ann Street. Luigi's moved to Image and still trades today whilst the Clothes Rail also traded at Image The current occupants began life as a skateboard and fashion shop but seems to have dropped the former. OCCUPANTS 1868-71: BASKET MAKER: Charles Terry 1873-96: BUTCHER: CH Jones, later Jones & Co (1873-90, 1892, 1894-96), J Combridge (1891, 1893) 1897-99: SECOND HAND BOOKSELLER: Herbert Goldney (1897-98), J Smith (1899) 1900-04: ANTIQUE DEALER: C Gardner 1907: WATCHMAKER: M Tharin 1908-13: GREENGROCER: H Ayling (1908-10), W Harman (1911-13) 1914-17: DRAPER: Jacob Lenz 1918-22: WARDROBE DEALER: Mrs Georgina Harris 1923-40: STATIONER: Walter Pullinger 1947-49: HARDWARE STORE: GA Ransom 1951-54: DRAPER: E & B O'Grady 1956-64: TV & RADIO DEALERS: Ransoms (Television) Ltd 1966-69: SHOE DEALER: AG Martin 1971-84: TAILOR: Luigi's 1985-87: LADIES HAIRDRESSER: Front Page 1988-89: COSMETICS: The Little Green Shop 1990-93: LADIES WEAR: The Clothes Rail 1994-97: CLEANING MATERIALS: The Little Green Shop 1997-98: SHOE SHOP: Platform 1999-2011: CLOTHES: Jell-O

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