Rob Forsyth

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This article draws together multiple facts from a number of different locations linked from the text or listed as footnotes

 

There is an 1860 photo of the premises when it was called John Deane’s stores.

It looks as if  it became Tuckers Grocery Store, proprietor Elisha Tucker,  sometime before 1868 when he appears in Cassey’s Directory having probably come from Frome, Somerset where he was borne.

He has a 5 yr old son Robert who I think became the village postman

and he had a son also called Robert who was probably running it in the 1920s and early 1930s.

 

Kellys 1939 Directory lists a Mr VR Boone as its proprietor.

He passed the shop to his son Raymond who subsequently sold it post WWII to

Mr Ted Moseley.

He sold it to Mr & Mrs Wynne in the late 1950s. They had a wood carved plaque made of the house (now Quince & Clover) and the shop(now in the Parish Archive - see pic) and

they sold the shop to Peter Cannell in the 1970s.

Since it closed as a food shop (date?)  there have been a number of owners and changes of use from antiques to restaurant but sadly now not anything.