Grocer W. English and Ironmoner Johnson’s both occupied spots on Chatsworth Road in Brampton – and a place in the hearts of local people.
They seemed to a look back to a different time and were unlike anything else in the modern era.
Here we look back in pictures at two of the town’s best-loved businesses.
Here we look back in pictures at two of the town’s best-loved businesses.
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5. Stocking the pantry
W. English was an old fashioned grocers that offered everything a family needed to stock the kitchen larder
Photo: John Stanley
6. Prime position
Outside shop, on the corner of Chatsworth Road and Heaton Street, are Brian English and shop assistant Andrew Kay
Photo: John Stanley
7. Traditional store
The shop maintained the grocer's traditions, but sadly closed October 1995.
Photo: John Stanley