shops
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Shops and provisions
Read more →Sweets Mrs Hobbs was rather like Mrs Tiggywinkle – short and round with greying red hair and a wart on her chin which sported a red hair. Down a step into her little shop – filled to the brim with all kinds of confectionery – toffees and boiled sweets, liquorice ‘laces’ and chocolate bars, from […]
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Hilda Flello: one hundred years in Chesham
Read more →Hilda was born in 1906, the middle child of seven, to Arthur Edward King and Elizabeth Kate (nee Channer). Arthur and Elizabeth had their first 3 children in Church Street and three further children were born in Alexander Street. Then in 1914 they moved into one of the first council houses in Chesham, in Brockhurst […]
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Shops in Chesham in the 1940s and 1950s
Read more →What is now the fish and chip shop opposite the bottom of Lowndes Avenue used to be a general store owned by Winnie Barnes, a regular stop-off on the way home from school to spend our rationing sweet coupons on sherbet dabs or huge gob-stoppers! These latter would probably be banned on the grounds of […]