Historic Leek Road Shops (Ford Green Road)
Henrietta Brown standing on step 125 Leek Road (Now Ford Green Road) circa 1900 with Albert and Lillian, The First of 12 Children (11 Survived). The front room was the green grocers shop. The family was raised in the back room. The kitchen was used to store produce. The had a horse and cart to hawk around the locality and to collect produce. The horse was stabled on Broad’s Row (Now Community Drive). Henrietta lived to the age of 85. This shop is now ‘Slacks Green Grocers’.
Smallthorne Photos – June 2013
Smallthorne Bank as it was on 1st June 2013.Photos courtesy of Jamie...
Dave’s DIY
A familiar site at the top of Ford Green Road was Dave’s DIY, Dave sold everything and if you only wanted two bolts you could buy two bolts, you could get keys cut, old folk used to buy paraffin and coal for heating and he would even deliver. Circa Early...