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Shops and trades

One group working on this project is looking at shops, businesses and pubs in the village.  In the early stages the focus was on Queen Street as the main shopping street, looking at the developments and changes since 1920.  One of our group, Sue Middleton, had done some previous research and produced a chart showing the present shops and buildings together with those that have been and gone.  How many people know that there was once a branch of the Midland Bank, or who can remember when there was a fish and chip shop where there is now a greengrocer?  Peter Topps, led a conducted tour talking about the changes he has seen over the years, adding fascinating details and stories about shopkeepers and residents. Another member of our group, Margaret Poultney has researched old trade directories which show that Bottesford had a shoe repairer, a men's hairdresser, a saddler and an omnibus proprietor amongst others. This material and some contemporary photographs the group was exhibited at the May 2007 Project Exhibition and visitors were most helpful in providing further details. This helped guide the gathering of further information about the history other shops and businesses in Bottesford.

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    "A Little History of Bottesford"

    Pages from a lost manuscript
  • A Saucy tale - from Easthorpe to the Houses of Parliament

    A Saucy tale - from Easthorpe to the Houses of Parliament

    Did you know that HP Sauce came originally from Bottesford?
  • A Village Shop in Bottesford

    A Village Shop in Bottesford

    A.D. Moulsher
  • Albert Street

    Albert Street

    150 years of shops and trades
  • Bottesford Post Office Staff 1912

    Bottesford Post Office Staff 1912

  • Chapel Street

    Chapel Street

    150 years of shops and trades
  • Christmas and Chorlton's Garage

    Christmas and Chorlton's Garage

    From the Cart to the Car
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    Eric George

    Bottesford Butcher
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    From Pugmill to Clamp - Brickmaking in Bottesford

    How the bricks were made in Bottesford's brickyard.
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    Geeson's Shop, the Boy on the Box, a Parade and Albert Street

    Three Photographs from the Topps Archive
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    Glasshouses A Hundred Yards Long

    Joy Simpson remembers her family's nursery.
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    High Street

    100 years of shops and trades
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    J.D.Robinson & Co, Bottesford

    The Rutland Pork Pie and Sausage Manufacturer
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    Kelly's Directory

    1928-1941
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    Lace Darners and Road Menders

    Men's Work, Women's Work, Bottesford, early Twentieth Century
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    Locating Bottesford's brickyards and gas works

    Details from old maps
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    Market Street

    150 years of shops and trades
  • Old Directories

    Old Directories

    Trades and professions from the 1850s onwards
  • P & R Gibson General Store

    P & R Gibson General Store

    39 Queen Street in the 1960s
  • Queen Street

    Queen Street

    150 years of shops and trades
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    Queen Street - Louis Abbott, Decorator

    Memories - Louis Abbott Decorator
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    Queen Street - then and now

    A Gallery of Photographs
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    Queen Street today

    Shop and Trades
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    Remember Rosy's Shop?

    A poet's memories
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