High Street

Brandon’s High Street was once a popular stopping off point for weary travellers, leading to the many inns and taverns lining the street.  The High Street once boasted such an array of shops that there was little need to venture out of town, and the shops were very well supported.  The motor vehicle changed all that.

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White’s Suffolk Directory of 1892, lists the following businesses operating along the High Street at the time:

• John Lee Barber & Co. – malsters
• John Beeby – wine & spirit, coal merchant
• Osborne Chapman – draper & outfitter
• Walter Waspe Chapman – grocer, china, etc.
• Edwin Clarke – White Hart Hotel
• Herbert Claxton – ironmonger & general smithy
• William Curtis – ironmonger & engineer
• Charles Diggon – saddler & harness maker
• Harry Edwards – baker
• Daniel Garner Richards – game dealer
• William George Gentle – butcher
• James Osborne – plumber, glazier & decorator
• Frederick Rissbrook – baker & confectioner
• Fuller Rolfe – Postmaster, assistant overseer, collector of taxes, Secretary to Lighting Inspectors, Secretary to Grammar School Foundation, and to Reading Room Co., farmer
• Harry Toombs – hairdresser, tobacconist
• Frederick George Wood – solicitor

Kelly’s Directory of 1933 lists the following:

• E.A. Bacon & Co. – draper
• Barclays Bank Ltd, (Cyril Clapper, sub-manager): – bank
• Edward Vincent Beaumont – physician & medical officer, public vaccinator, factory surgeon for Brandon district, medical officer to the Post Office
• Bell Inn (C. Tillett)
• F.W. Bradley Lt. – dentists
• Brandon Clothing Co. – boot & shoe dealers, ladies & gents outfitters, wool merchant
• Brandon Conservative Club, Paget Hall
• H.J. Bromhall – chemist
• Walter Horace Bryant – dentist
• J.W. Caban & Son – hairdresser
• J.T. Capron – solicitor
• Winifred Chapman – insurance agent
• George Clarke – antique dealer
• Sidney A. Coates – boarding house
• Josiah George Collen – grocer
• Francis C. Diggon – harness maker
• George Dunger – boot & shoe repair
• Arthur Footer – tobacconist
• M Froud & Son – builders
• Montague Froud – corn & flour dealer
• Frederick William Gentle – butchers
• William H Goodhall – draper
• Green Bros. – timer merchant
• Mrs M.E. Green – printer
• Hanbury & Co. – motor car depot
• Mrs Elsie & William Hancock – fishmongers
• Harry Henman – cycle agent
• F. Holmes & sons – coal & coke, corn & seed merchants, haulage contractors
• Joseph Welch Housman – outfitter
• Stanley Hunt (manager), Potter & Moss –
• Percy Hyam – baker
• International Tea Co.’s Stores Ltd. – grocers
• Robert John Kerrison – watch & clock maker
• Ronald E. Major – solicitor & commissioner for oaths (Winter & Marchant), bank chambers
• William Mayes – boot & shoe repair
• S.E. Moore – butcher
• William Murrell & Son – coal & coke merchants
• Miss Evelyn Murrell – corsetiere
• William John Murrell – watch & clock maker
• Oakes & Son – gents’ outfitter
• Alfred E. Osborne – plumber & painter
• The Ouseside Bowling Club (F.W. Ridsdale , secretary)
• Ouse Private Hotel (Arthur Rolph)
• Paget Hall (L. Fendick, secretary)
• Potter & Moss Ltd. – wine merchants
• Railway Hotel (Frank W. Holmes, proprietor)
• Ram Hotel (Percy John Robb, proprietor)
• Arthur Charles Rivett – grocer
• George Wells – hairdresser
• White Hart Hotel (Thomas Gore, proprietor)
• Winter & Martin – solicitors, bank chambers
• Alfred John Winter – solicitor & commissioner for oaths, bank chamber

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