Shops & trades
George Inn celebrating queen victoria's Jubilee 1887
East Meon Brewery was bought by Crowley Ales in 1889 and named The New Inn
Header of invoice of Adams store, 1889
The Gaite House at Glenthorne was, in the mid-19th century, the post office and then a dairy. A pop-up fish shop operated once a week in the hut on the left.
Glenthorne house and Gaite house shop
The Post Office moved to Church Street in the second half of the 19th century.
The smithy at Frogmore Lane, Jim Hobbs in centre
Smithy with Pillstyle Cottage (now Fotge Cottage)
Potters General Warehouse, 1900s.
Funeral of E.A.J.Potter, photo Cobbett, Drayton, May 26 191
Mrs Potter outside Potter's General Warehouse, 1911. She took over the business when her husband died.
Old Bell Cottage was a leather makers and cobblers shop/
The shop then became G.H.Pinks general store
Henry Coles bill 1909, from the dairy at Glenthorne
Publican, possibly at The George Inn
Parons Store, 1920s
Savage and Parsons cart in Frogmore, 1920s
Riverside was a butcher's shop during the first half of the 20th century
Aburrow girls outside the butchers shop at Riverside 1930s
Arthur Warren ran a haberdashers and general store at what is now the Tudor House during the first half of the 20th century
Riverside was during the 1990s Bennetts Dairy Shop
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