The Old Spar Shop

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This site has been in use as a shop for many years. The first recorded instance dates from 1914 when Ernest Tizard had a drapers shop here.
By 1935 George Dando, the father of Marion, Doreen and Maurice ran it as a grocers store. After he remarried, he moved to Elms in Newmans Lane and ran a boot and shoe shop. Later on the shop was run by the Shepleys and then it became the VG Shop and then Mr and Mrs Brown ran it as the Spar Shop for many years.