Does anyone remember the shops in Bartholomew Street from Black Boys Bridge towards town-I can recollect the first shop over the bridge was Deans-a  small supermarket if you like, with a very strong smell of cheese selling a good variety of tinned food, cheeses, veg etc.
I think Etheringtons also had a bakery shop and Paines, the Photographers were also thereabouts.. There was a greengrocer called Pugsleys just before the road that ran around the back of The Nags Head leading to Risbys refrigeration and many other units. Then came The Nags Head with Bannisters, the wool shop in between the Pub and where I was born-Hooper & Ashby..Next door was Henrys the barbers..and there my memory seems to run out..Can anyone add to this?

The bakery shop was Edgingtons. My wife worked there as a teenager. The bread was baked in the shop but the cakes were brought in from the other bakery.
There was a butchers (name?), the greengrocer was Pugsleys but was originally Bamfords.
Paines was a chemist, EC Paine, but the son John turned the northern part into a photo shop. The company still exists in Newbury run by the grandson.

1950:

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1950:

Thanks for that, what a find..where on earth did you find it..my Dad is mentioned!!

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Thanks for that, what a find..where on earth did you find it..my Dad is mentioned!!

It's from the 1950 Kelly's Directory - Newbury library almost certainly has a copy.

Thanks for that page from Kelly's, that saved me a trip to the library, I just had to have the name of the butcher and I had forgotten the Woodlands laundry front counter. Woodlands laundry occupied all the area behind those shops and was a big concern in Newbury in those days.
The library has by the way, a shelf full of those year books going back to the early 1900s. There are a few years either missing or they weren't published.
You might be surprised what the library holds, for instance, all the burial records and headstone inscriptions for the now closed Newtown Rd cemetery which have been labouriously typed out (on a real typewriter) and bound in three books.

1st floor end shelves past all the computers.

Do you remember in another thread we were talking about then and now shopping. Just have a look at the shops listed in what is probably 200 yards. 3 butchers, a greengrocer, a cafe, a laundry, several grocers, a chemist, 2 bakers, a drapers and big knicker shop (Inch), a fishmonger, a coal merchant with a block of coal in the window that must have weighed two hundredweight, a gents hairdresser, a builders merchant, two or three pubs and even an electrical goods shop or two.
That's without the shops opposite.

1940:

Anybody remember the old Sainsbury car park before they moved. Looking across to Bartholomew Street. Ground now covered by Kennet shopping.

I sort of remember it, but I had forgotten about Geo.Ed. Whitehorn the bakers (a very good one) until I saw that picture. I was looking at a list I have of businesses that were in town and I was reminded of C.A.J Crowe, a clothiers that I always thought a bit creepy

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I sort of remember it, but I had forgotten about Geo.Ed. Whitehorn the bakers (a very good one) until I saw that picture. I was looking at a list I have of businesses that were in town and I was reminded of C.A.J Crowe, a clothiers that I always thought a bit creepy

You might be too young but do you remember all the electric delivery vans that Whitehorn's used to use.

Jimmy Crowe was a strange person who dealt mostly in second hand clothing and army surplus. Used by a lot of locals but they would have a good look round to make sure they weren't being seen by a neighbour before going into his shop. A bit like a visit to Ann Summers.

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You might be too young but do you remember all the electric delivery vans that Whitehorn's used to use.

Jimmy Crowe was a strange person who dealt mostly in second hand clothing and army surplus. Used by a lot of locals but they would have a good look round to make sure they weren't being seen by a neighbour before going into his shop. A bit like a visit to Ann Summers.

I remember they had vans but I don't know if they were electric. I thought they were Morris or Commer

I seem to remember Harry Prosser's and Beynons were a bit like a visit to Ann Summers too but without the opportunity of buying something exciting  

Did I imagine it or did I see a post by Dig of the Stump that has now disappeared?

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Jimmy Crowe was a strange person who dealt mostly in second hand clothing and army surplus. Used by a lot of locals but they would have a good look round to make sure they weren't being seen by a neighbour before going into his shop. A bit like a visit to Ann Summers.

Can you get Army surplus in Ann Summers then? - I musy pay a visit

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Can you get Army surplus in Ann Summers then? - I musy pay a visit

Yes, they do a range of four inch shells cunningly disguised. (Oh, so I've been told)

I think that the bakery must have been known as the Newbury Model Bakeries before Whitehorn's. At least that is the livery being carried by the little electric vans as photographed in the 50s at Bartholomew St. They were a maroon colour with gold signwriting if my memory serves me correctly. The vans went inside overnight and were charged up ready for the next day's local deliveries. You can see the entrance to the warehouse to the left of the building.

That lorry in the middle of the road I have just noticed is a well known name in its time. Hughes & Marriot.

Great photo-I,m trying to get my bearings...
What is the building work going on on the right just in front of the lorry.. iI think the Pub on the immediate right is The Bricklayers..If it is I know where i am  My photo isn't that clear..