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High Street, PERSHORE, WR10 1AA

Double pillar box on the High Street, Pershore.

The bookshop on the right is at 25 High Street, on the corner of Lunns Yard. The proceeds of the sale of donated items at the shop next door helps finance Blue Cross UK, a charity dedicated to helping sick, injured and homeless pets.

The shop sells secondhand books, and says it is one of the largest such shops in the West Midlands. The shop also sells a range of other items including gift cards, picture frames and local photographs. The building is Grade II listed and was originally a 16th or 17th century house and has been much rebuilt and refronted in the late 18th/early 19th century. There were also alterations in the 20th century. At the time this photograph was taken the building next door (No. 23) was a branch of the Cheltenham & Gloucester (formerly a building society). It was owned by the Lloyds TSB banking group. When the group was forcibly split up following the financial crisis of 2007/08 TSB was split off as an independent bank. Number 23 in recent years has been the Pershore branch of TSB (currently owned by the Spanish bank Sabadell) and that continues (as at August 2019).

The bank branch at 23 High Street was formerly a branch of C&G (Cheltenham & Gloucester).

In November 2014, the town centre post office is inside this Tesco Express at 15-17 High Street.

Savers Health & Beauty on the right is at 22 High Street, next door to Sugar 'n' Spice cafe and gift shop.

The Wine Rack off-licences were part of First Quench Retailing Limited, which also owned brands such as Threshers and The Local. The company went into administration late in 2009. Attempts by the administrators to sell the shops off as a going concern were not successful. As a result, about three hundred were closed before the end of November 2009, as stocks ran out. Most of the remaining four or five hundred unsold stores were scheduled for closure in December 2009. When Pershore's Wine Rack was photographed on the 26th November 2009, it had a window notice saying "Closing Down Last 6 Days". The brand name Wine Rack has now been sold to another company, but it appears they are buying few, if any, of the existing Wine Rack stores.