the bottom drawer
recollections, photos and memorabilia of Leyton and Leytonstone
Grove Green Road shops
324 Smith / Edwards dairyman c1903-c1906
Fredrick Edwards dairyman c1910
William Bourne
grocer c1922-c1937
Lucket grocers c1939-c1950
Dean & Sons bookmakers c1960-c1976
Dennis
bookmakers c1984
now residential
326 Elizabeth Willis corn chandler c1903-c1910
Burrows shoe repairer c1922-c1925
Chapman
shoe repairer c1935
Dean shoe repairer c1937-c1950
Piper’s shoe repairers c1960-c1976
Peter’s
dry cleaners c1984-2012
Grove Green Road has shop premises on one side, between Ashville and Southwest Roads. Alex Wilkinson has memories of, and has researched, the shops that used to be there. The photographs were taken in October 2012. Changes continue.