Pope's Grocery Shop

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The shop nearest to the entrance to The Rectory was at one time a cycle repair shop.

Around 1926 it was run by Ernie Cleaves selling dairy products, groceries and meat. He started there when he was first married and stayed for three years, including through the General Strike of 1926. He had a milk round and his wife walked into Bath and sold her needlework round the big houses and then walked back in time to open the shop.

By 1931 it was a grocers shop run by Harry and Mabel Pope who sold ice creams and sweets as well as groceries.

Later it was run by Philip Pierce as an electrical shop.