Where we used to shop….
A photo from pre-Goulbournes Greengrocer days. Now looking much more attractive as Elephant Coffee
Susan Chambers
J. R. Hughes & Sons
J.R.Hughes was a grocery store opened in 1903 in the premises that had previously been The Nag’s Head public house and is now HSBC.
A rare photograph of the shop from the R. E. Benbow collection
Three butchers’ shops
British and Argentine Meat Company Limited
Evenutally Dewhursts and various businesses since, at the corner
of Liverpool road and Raby Road.
Who are the people in the photo?
Briscoe’s
A painting of Briscoe’s Butchers on High Street, perhaps 1890s, now an
empty shop.
The White Horse is on far left.
Pyke’s
Pyke’s butchers when it was on Parkgate Road, now a hairdressers.
Nicholls and Ashfield Farm Dairy
This is the plan for a ‘New Shopping Centre’ on Parkgate Parade, March 1934. It was one shop and house plus two lock-up shops for W.K.Nicholls of Ashfield Farm Dairy, Brook Street.
Ashfield Farm Dairy 
The Dairy was built late 1920s, on what is now Tesco car-park.
Shoe and Boot Repairs
This building has now reverted to what was presumably its original use, as a house, but within (my) living memory it was a cobbler’s shop.
It is on Parkgate Road, to the left of Maurice Rigby’s barbers shop.
The advertisement is from 1921.