Shops and Businesses

Swindon once had some wonderful shops and businesses – drapers, ironmongers, department stores and more photographers than you could shake a stick at.

Take a walk down memory lane and read about those business men and their families who now reside in Radnor Street Cemetery.

c1910 E. Hayball, North Wilts Dairy, 1 Hythe Road.

Read all about Ernest Hayball – Dairyman

c1910 Limmex, Corner of the High Street and Wood Street

Read all about Samuel Joseph Limmex – Ironmonger

c1912 William and Mary Hooper, 6 Cromwell Street.

Read all about William and Mary Hooper rock up at Stonehenge

1913 Bays & Co. Castle Works, Wood Street.

Read all about The Busy Rye Family

1961 Horders Drapers, High Street.

Read all about Horder Bros – Drapers, Milliners, Mantle Makers and Costumiers

1956 Morse’s Department Store, 10-12 Regent Street.

Read all about Mr Levi Lapper Morse – the End of an Era

1973 A.E. Tunley, Gloucester Street.

Read all about Albert Edward Tunley

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