Marjorie WARREN nee RICHARDS outside Oliver’s Grocers, Fore Street
Shops, Commercial Road
Launch Art – 2A Thomas St, Porthleven, Helston TR13 9DG
FORE STREET (Western side, going uphill):
Willie KITCHEN cobbler (till 1961) > Ned HALL, cobbler > The Paint Pot (Vic STRIKE 1967-1980s > The Lugger > The Square restaurant.
Mr & Mrs H VINCENT > The Post Office (from 1914) > Mr Hudson VINCENT > Bakers Oven > [craft shops various] > Harbour Barber
TREVASKIS, draper & outfitter > E BAWDEN & son, draper & outfitter > Kenneth BAWDEN, draper & outfitter > The Harbour Shop > J & M GILBERT, confectioner, tobacconist > residential
Miss N WILLIAMS, grocer > Miss H WILLIAMS, grocer > Mr & Mrs Hedley OLIVER, grocer > Miss Gladys WOOLCOCK, grocer > ……. Launderette (two shops combined)
Miss M ALLEN, grocer & greengrocer > Miss Adie WILLIAMS, grocer > …… Launderette (two shops combined)
OLIVERS, butchers > WIMBLETONS, butchers (1930s-1980s) > residential
Willie JOHNS, carpenter & undertaker > residential garages
Maurice T LOBB, watchmaker & jeweller (1930s-1959) > John T PASCOE, “John the clock” (prev. in Commercial Rd) > demolished > Chinese restaurant :Moonflower
The Liberal Room (above BENNEY’s farm cowshed) used by the Home Guard during war > demolished > Chinese restaurant + Post Office (Post Office now residential)
FORE STREET (Eastern side, going uphill):
+Post Office (c1900, in a wooden shack) > W H PASCOE, greengrocer > A K PASCOE, greengrocer
+Herbert SMITH, butcher (early 1900s) > Mr CURTIS, butcher
+Mr WHITEHEAD, saddler (early 1900s)
+++ [combined & rebuilt] >Miss P MILWARD “None-go-by”, handicrafts studio & tea rooms > demolished 1920s
> 2 new shops plus flats:
a) F ROBBINS, Chemist (1926) > W POLGLASE > L ROGERS, chemist (1959-1988) > chemist shop
b) A K PASCOE (Arnold), fruiterer, confectioner, tobacconist > E HENDY :Ebo”, greengrocer
> …hairdressers & fish shop
Ronnie LAITY, barber
(upstairs) BLIGHTS, billiard room > TOC H room (used for village functions etc)
S J JAMES, grocer (till 1880s) > Amos BLIGHT > Gilbert BLIGHT > Ewart MEDLEY (1953) > POTTER & QUINN, Fore Street Stores > QUINN (Fore Street Stores- moved) > WILLIAMS & Co Ltd (John WILLIAMS), wholesale fruit & potato merchants > … split into: Stargazey Gifts & Accessories AND Horse & Jockey Cafe > Twisted Currant, tearoom ..
G F NEEDHAM (electrical & motor engineer) > demolished
Post Office (Miss Emily JACKA) > WR & Mary RICHARDS, greengrocer (1936-1962) > Harry JOHNS, greengrocer (1962-1967) > Gerald BUCKINGHAM (incl Deli counter) > Corner Deli > No, 12 (briefly) > The Corner Deli + takeaway pizza (Kerry and Stuart COLEMAN) ..
Porthleven Museum 