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High Street, RINGWOOD, BH24 1AG

This old house has seen better days. Its chimney really is leaning a bit. Northumberland Court seems to be the alleyway that runs between the brick buildings and the pink house, from the High Street to Meeting House Lane. For the other side see Image

A local photographer, see http://www.gerrybeauchamp.co.uk/ . This is the other side of Image Later https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7867150 .

Beneath the name it says "Established over 150 years". It was certainly there in the 1950s when I was a boy, but in those days, before the advent of supermarkets, it was the premier grocers in Ringwood. My mother would go into the shop to order groceries for the week, and they would be delivered later in cardboard boxes by Frampton's lorry. It was Ocado without the internet. The staff stood behind a flat counter upon which there was a pile of greaseproof paper (about 2 ft x 3ft) for wrapping things. The groceries were behind them on wooden shelves; the customers never touched them. Items would be fetched, or weighed out and packaged up, and the price totted up in pencil on the greaseproof paper. At some stage I think the Frampton family sold the business and it now sells pet and garden supplies. You can walk out of the back of the shop onto Meeting House Lane. Later http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2544975

The left half of it. For more information and the whole shop see Image

This long lived Ringwood shop, initially a grocers, then a pet and garden supplier following the coming of the supermarket, closed in early 2011. I am told that a restaurant may be about to appear. I believe these wooden shelves have been in place in this shop since the 1950s. For the whole shop seeImage

This long lived Ringwood shop, initially a grocers, then a pet and garden supplier following the coming of the supermarket, closed in early 2011. I am told that a restaurant may be about to appear. See also Image Earlier http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2544717