Shops, Businesses & Trades

The memories of four Deddington boys and a girl all of whom grew up at much the same time gives us a very complete picture of the working life of the parish in the 1930s and '40s

Sid Berry (1920-2006)
...in conversation with Colin and Mary Robinson in 2005 provided an audio account (1'19" mp3 file)of many that existed before the war. From this account a list of the names and places has been compiled

Bernard Bowerman (1905- 89)
Bernard was born in Aynho but became a long term resident of Clifton. He wrote several articles in 1987/88 for the Deddington News (see 'Deddington Past' in this DN Index of articles) drawing on stories contained in what he called his 'Red Book' the contents of which ca be found HERE
Jim Yerbury (1926-2016
...also provided many names in his 11 page reminiscences of 1930's Deddington
George Harris (b.1931)
Georges' book As I Remember contains a multitude of names and businesses. As well as reading via the link in previous sentence it can be borrowed from the library. In its 210 pages George recounts in extra-ordinary detail and anecdote, the story of his family growing up in Deddington until they emigrated as £10 'Poms' to Australia in 1969.

Daphne Harper (B.1937)
Daphne also walked the reader round Deddington and its shops in the 1940's via a number of articles originally written in 1993 for a WI writing competition and later re-published by Ruth Johnson in the Deddington News (Issues December 2008 through to April 2009). They are reproduced HERE as a facsimile pdf.

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