Notice the ‘curtains’ or screens tucked behind the corbers of the shop windows? These fixed in order to protect the window-displayed stock from sunlight? it’s also of note to see the word ‘Fruiters’ instead of the later, much vaunted name, “Fruiterers”
(i) I’m disappointed that you changed the original caption: ‘fruiter’ is a perfectly good word, noted in the SOD as first recorded in 1483 – it doesn’t say when ‘fruiterer’ came to be the word for a fruit shop.
James Hall – Fruit shop in Stockton c1910.
Notice the ‘curtains’ or screens tucked behind the corbers of the shop windows? These fixed in order to protect the window-displayed stock from sunlight? it’s also of note to see the word ‘Fruiters’ instead of the later, much vaunted name, “Fruiterers”
I believe Mr Hall later became one of the major wholesalers of Vegetables, Fruit, and Flowers in the Stockton/ Middlesbrough areas
(i) I’m disappointed that you changed the original caption: ‘fruiter’ is a perfectly good word, noted in the SOD as first recorded in 1483 – it doesn’t say when ‘fruiterer’ came to be the word for a fruit shop.
(ii) where was this shop?