Burton Road
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Burton Road
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 23 Oct 2011
Co-operative Burton Road branch was purchased for about £733 and opened in 1879 though the shop at 95 to 99 Burton Road that still trades today was built in 1901 and opened on Wednesday August 7th at 7:30 pm as shop, dwelling house and stables. The Co-op reported that on opening “stocks will, in future, be held at this Branch sufficient to suit all the requirements of members and boots will be repaired by a competent workman on the premises,…” Gray Street carriage entrance is now bricked in. In 1996 the Co-op reported that in the July the store “was re-launched following the completion of a sizeable extension which permitted not only a widening of the grocery range, but the re-incorporation of a Butchery and Delicatessen section.” This seems to be when the front was converted to its current appearance but with a doorway in the northern bay. The shop was extended into number 99 to the north in early 2001, presumably when the doorway in 97 was removed.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.238772
Longitude
-0.54448