Does anyone remember shopping in Branch 32 on Dovecot Street, Stockton? We believe it was a florists and horticultural shop…
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Does anyone remember shopping in Branch 32 on Dovecot Street, Stockton? We believe it was a florists and horticultural shop…
Didn’t this also used to be Dressers ?
This is where Barnacles fish restaurant/takeaway is, opposite Georgia Browns. The fancy frontage just visible on the right is No 14 which has a 1914 plaque.
http://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/number-14-dovecot-street-stockton/
If you look at the reflections in the shop windows you can also see the arches of the Georgia Browns building and the ‘Marks’ shop next door, which can be seen on some of the photos on here of Dovecot Street in the 50s and 60s.
Ah yes you are right Jonathan. What happened to Dressers?
My uncle, John Smith, managed this shop in the 1950/60s, he lived on Ragpath Lane, Roseworth at the time. He later moved on to work for Wilsons of Middlesbrough to manage their florists department. He is still alive at 93!
I think this is the branch where my mother, Audrey Fitzgerald worked in the 1960’s making funeral wreaths and wedding bouquets. It was near to the Co-op electrical branch where I began work as an apprentice TV engineer in 1967.