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eandehistory
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 Posted - 30 Mar 2005 : 03:57:36 AM
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The following list is made up from the memories from people who’s ages have a difference of around 30 years. There may be duplication, but it gives an idea of the activities over the period from 1910 to the 1930’s.
At the beginning of the century you could count the shops on one hand, the one where the cab company is now used to be the general store. Opposite was Bakers (No.222 the wooden building which is still there), the newsagent These were the only 2 shops there.
Later more shops were built on the same side as Bakers, the corner shop, Beams Tobacconists/sweets. Douglas Strikes Stores, Thelton's or Baldwin's or Faulkner,(perhaps all 3 at different times) Butcher, Felton Dairy. The yard behind the archway was Charles Faulkner's Builders. A Haberdashery shop with a Post Office in it owned by Frank Faulkner. Mrs Tyrell from Poplar farm used to trade from two baskets on her arms. As more and more houses were built trade increased and eventually she got half a shop on Chessington Rd near Beams. The other half was Ralph Brown the shoe repairers. After some Black Cottages opposite, by the side of the Social Club were pulled down and replaced by shops, Mrs Tyrell got one of these.
Milk delivery was by horse and cart from Scott's farm. It was measured into the customer's jug with various size pewter dips from tall churns. Bread came from Carpenters Bakery in Ewell village. Mr Jelly used to deliver fish by horse and cart and later by motorbike and sidecar.
There was another row of black cottages between Bakers Newsagent what is now the White Castle resturant which were demolished in the early 1960’s. A cottage behind Wally's Bakers shop (No. 222) was owned by Baker family so it was kept, and is still there.
The Social club used to be the Church Sunday School until around 1925ish, it was previously known as "The Chapel at the Hamlet" and was an initiative of Sir George Glyn while he was Vicar of St Mary's Ewell. It was later taken over by Sir Arthur Glyn and became the Social Club by 1919.
The shops past Plough Rd (after 1929) were as follows, the corner shop was the Turners the Bakers, with a bake house at the back. The outbuildings are still there. A TV shop, Reynolds, which had the first Televisions in West Ewell, the first was sold to the Wally Baker. Phillips the Iron monger whose son was Freddie Phillips of BBC fame.(Recorded music and sound effects for Trumpton etc in his home in Chessington Rd. Sadly died in October 2003) Read more about Freddie Phillips at http://www.t-web.co.uk/trump_fp.htm
A Grocers, Venus. Critchley, sweet shop, Chemist, Jelly's fishmonger, and a drapery. The shop opposite, previously the general store (now Cab Co) was a cycle shop, this and the drapery were owned by the children of a Mr Oldacre. The Drapers belonged to his daughter Doris, the cycle shop "West Ewell Cycle Works" one of his sons called Albert, the grocers another son Jim. His other sons Harry and George owned cycle shops in Epsom and Banstead. The tyre shop was a Bakers, a cobblers then run Mr Oldacre The workshop was built during the war.
There was a Cobblers (Doug Razzle) in shops in Plough Rd (Wooden cottages, now demolished) There used to be a toll gate at top of Plough Rd. This was closed once a year to retain rights over it In 1899 there was a blacksmith there. This strip of land where the Pub sign has always been, used to be a path to the Pub, owned by the Turk family, now that piece of land belongs to the shop (No 222) and the modern Plough Rd is a few yards over. Part of the present day pub is the original building, apparently.
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groatsend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Feb 2006 : 11:08:19 AM
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| The family in Chessington Road shops were Falker not Faulkner I lived in the Grocers Douglas |
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eandehistory
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Posted - 13 Feb 2006 : 5:54:29 PM
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| Thanks for that correction. These memories were collected auraly so a few errors are bound to have crept in. |
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chorister
United Kingdom
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Posted - 17 Sep 2007 : 11:26:18 AM
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Although I moved from West Ewell in 1958, I still have vivid memories of the shops in the Plough Road/Chessington Road area. On the corner of Fulford Road, was Whitehouse's greengrocers, then Baldwins butchers, grocers, PO, Beams (Grace & Jessie), Wiseman boot repairs, Baldwins Grocers, Howards grocers - later Co-op. Next to that was Elsans Fruit & veg stall & Bakers Newsagents. I cannot guarantee the order of the premises.
Across the road - Oldacres cycles, Tyrrells greengrocers, grocers, James' hardware, toyshop, butchers, drapers. Behind all these premises, ran the "Puffing Billy", delivering the hospital coal.
The other shops were Turners bakers (the bread was baked at their main shop in Ewell Village), Tv shop, Knowles the chemist, Jelly fishmonger & Doris haberdashery.
In Plough Road, the other shop was a grocers', next door to Weekes' the builder.
I was saddened to read about the closure of the "Plough Inn", the number of times that I watched the Charringtons chap roll the wooden barrels down the well greased "ladder." |
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Local Shops: Chessington Rd/Plough Rd
