Picture gallery of shops of the past

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Shops of the past



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Mrs Mary Marshall's grocery shop was in Aquila Road. Mrs Marshall, nee Keefe, was the wife of Edwin Charles Marshall
Bird's Bakery - picture Jersey Evening Post
We have not been able to identify the general stores in the photograph, which was probably taken around the turn of the 19th century. The sign above the shopfront appears to read 'All goods at town prices' which suggests that this is a country shop, but the telephone number - either 62 or 82 - with the wording 'P... Place' below, suggests a town shop. The number 62 was held by Randalls, of Minden Place, which ties in nicely with the large Randall's sign, but not with the 'P.... Place' wording, which has been confirmed by an enlarged and enhanced image. 82 was held by Down's Brothers in St Clement's Road, which is out of town but does not tie in with 'P Place' - so the location remains a mystery
Burtons is still in King Street, but Woolworth, behind, has closed, and Noel and Porter, further down the street, was demolished to make way for British Home Stores
The shop at Carrefour Selous. The building dates from mid 19th century, and at one time had a bakery. There are remains of the old oven behind the house. A stable and barn completed the outbuildings with a wall dividing from what became the grounds of the Methodist chapel. In the early 20th century, the shop was run by Ivy Divers, and later by Eva Berry, whose sister, Mary du Pré, came to live with her. By the 1950s the shop was rather run down. At one time there had been another shop on the opposite corner, across the main road to St John, and the post office around the corner from the pub continued into the 1970s and took most of the business. There were other shops by the church and at Six Roads which also had a bakery until at least 1940s. Mrs Berry kept the old house immaculately, but the shop in 1950s/60s was becoming curious - few items were displayed, all those shelves had individual items - one tin, or just one packet isolated randomly in the enormous space, with other stock handily kept under the counter for those who asked. She held a licence and sold cheap wine, mostly to farm workers. Mrs Berry was a tiny woman, silver grey hair severely pulled back into a bun, and by turns very friendly, or sharp-tongued. The two ladies wanted nothing to do with men, and kept a boxer dog - Facebook post by Sue Hardy.
Francis Foot outside his Dumaresq Street shop
Alf Jeune, seed merchant at 1 Burrard Street
Le Quesne wine merchant in 1912
W B Morris's Charing Cross Grocery Stores (No 6) in the 1900s
Parpallion, Colomberie 1910
Grantez farm shop in 1979
Mabel Skingle inside the Kensington Place shop she ran in the 1930s
West Park Supply Stores
Colomberie butcher Peter Bevis with a display of Christmas turkeys


James Heggie Hunter's newsagent and tobacconist on the corner of Val Plaisant and Victoria Street in 1947. James was born in Edinburgh on 8 March 1878, the son of James and Janet, nee Heggie. He married Evelyn Clara Taylor in Surrey in 1906 and they lived in London. She died in 1929 and James moved to Jersey in 1940, having also been to Bombay and Montreal. Having not been born in Jersey he was deported to Biberach in 1943. He returned to Jersey and his shop in 1945 and returned to Scotland in 1957, dying on the Isle of Bute in 1962
Ethel Yates' shop in James Road in the 1920s

Adverts and invoices

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