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Introduction
Map of Frieth Moor End Bramblings Astrea Merrydown Cottage Corner Cottage Moor's End Cottages Moor Gate House Underwood The Copse Fingest Road The Forge Folly Cottages The Willows Perrin Springs Lane Perrin Springs West's Cottages Ellery Rise Hilliers Lynden Cottage Frieth Hill Hillside Cottage Rowleys Pear Tree Cottage Hillside View The Platt Little Barlows Cutlers Cottage Yew Tree Cottage Little Cottage Barlows Birch Cottage Tedders / Rose Cottage The Old Stores The Yew Tree Inn Fairfield House Flint Cottage 1 Flint Cottage 2 Inglenook Middle Cottage Sunny Corner The Gables The Orchards Hilltop Cattons Mallards Hillswood The Old Parsonage White Gates The Laurels The Cottage The Firm Marlstone Westwood Bradstone Haylescroft The Niche Rivendell Summerhill Ashcroft Selborne The Ranch House Sara's Cottage The Cherries The Old School House Innings Road Collier's Farm Innings Gate Down the Lane Sunset Cottage Fermain Chilterns Rowan Cottage Creighton Cottage Apple Tree Old Well Cottage The Cottage Flat Roof Whitsun Backlins Red Kites Maidenscraft Spurgrove Lane Maidencraft Cottage September Cottage Spurgrove Cottage Gable End Willems Elder Barn Sunnydale |
[ See also the previous page "Tedders" ] From 1849 on The Old Stores was developed into a shop selling not only bread but bacon and pig meat - pigs were slaughtered behind the shop and the sides cured in the cellar below. Other useful commodities stocked were salt, flour, tea and dried goods, candles and soap etc and as they came available a full range of groceries. Charles Webb and Edward Collier leased the shop from Ephraim Webb in 1877.
 Picture taken by Mrs Busby of her garden (before 1966) showing the old bakehouse in the background. Picture contributed by Roger Druce  The old bakehouse in 1936 on the left and the Old Stores behind the lorry on the right [ Christopher Hogan of the Post Office Vehicle Club http://www.povehclub.org.uk writes : The vehicle in the photograph is CXN 274, a Post Office Telephones Albion B118 30cwt Utility with Harrington bodywork bought by the GPO in June 1936. These Albions lasted a long time, right through the war until the 1950s. Another from the same batch (CXN 247) survives in preservation at the Amberley Working Museum in Sussex http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk So I can date the view as being no earlier than June 1936. The kiosk looks like a K3 and these were superseded by the K6 in 1936, so this suggests the photograph was taken when the Albion Utility was brand new, in 1936. John Harris commented that he worked as a ganger for the GPO for a short time using these vehicles just after WWII - they carried the ladders on the side of the vehicle and had places for all the tools, pickaxes and shovels, and room inside for the men to sit and eat their sandwiches ! ] In 1895 the shop became the Post Office as well and remained so until 1935 when Mr Latham took over at Ashcroft. During the early 1960s the shop was always known as "Sacketts"  (Image donated by James Bowley)
After that just "The Stores" or "Frieth Stores"  The Stores in 1969 [ The K6 phone kiosk can be seen on the left of the picture ] It finally closed as a grocer's shop during the 1980s and for a short while became Country Furnishings run by Mr Stevens before reverting to a dwelling house. One amusing story concerns Mr Stevens who was not aware that the property he had bought had a cellar once used for bacon curing - he opened it up and modernised other parts of the premises. On uncovering an old fireplace he was horrified to find bones behind it. Knowing of my interest in local history he rang me up and asked if there had ever been any unsolved mystery connected with the house. On examining the 'evidence' I told him I was 90% sure that what he had found were pig bones. Just to be sure he took some of the bones down to Marlow Police Station where the Police Surgeon assured him that indeed they were pig remains. Mr Stevens heaved a sigh of relief. At some time during the 1800s the shop premises were enlarged by the addition of a wing on the upper side between the original building and the footpath beside the church. |
