Row of Shops, Grayswood Avenue

Image: © Nigel Mykura Taken: 4 Mar 2012

At one time all five of these shops would have been supplying goods: groceries green grocer, butcher, hardware and similar supply shops but now none of them do. Service companies have replaced small shop keepers. Two are closed, one is a hair dresser, one is a photographer, one is a maintenance company. In July 2012 a former local resident wrote: "Thanks for the somewhat nostalgic but sad photo. I lived and grew up just round the corner in Dulverton Avenue. Your assumptions about the shops past identities are correct. I did part of my Geography O level course work on these shops in the early 1970's they were in decline then. I'm sure it's up in the loft somewhere. One of these was an ironmongers which sold paraffin oils and the like. It had its own special smell. Around November time it had one of the best selection of fireworks around. Almost every empty space would have a bonfire on it. Thanks for reviving a memory from the past."

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