These days we think nothing of driving to the shops. However, this is not the way that shopping was done in the past. Most things were bought from local shops or from travelling salesmen in years gone by and Ludham was no exception. Here are some old pictures showing how Ludham people used to shop. The picture above shows the
old
Post Office and stores on Stocks Hill. The gate to the
churchyard can
be seen on the right. Actually, the Post Office has been
located in a
number of different buildings down the years, but this
place is the one
remembered the most. The building was later a restaurant
and is now a
private house.
This photograph is looking
north
into The Street. The shop on the right is now the
butchers. The Kings
Arms is on the left.
These cottages in the
Yarmouth
Road are all private houses now. They have a lot of
history and are
hundreds of years old. Many of them have been shops in
the past. On the
left of the picture is the corner of the Bakers Arms
demolished in 1959.
Here we see the saddler's
shop in
Norwich Road. This shop is now Alfresco Tea Rooms. The
photograph was
taken before the cottages were restored and shows the
one odd dormer
window (now replaced).
Here we see Ludham Bridge
and the
shops on the right. Photograph probably taken in the
1950s
This is Powells store,
which was
situated in the shop now occupied by the butcher. It has
also be Grace
Lyon's shop, Smith's and Hudson's stores and the Dairy
Cafe in its
time. The shop is famous for
being attacked by a German aircraft in W.W.II. Mrs
Powell was killed by
a bullet which entered through the window and ricocheted
off the dining
table.
Now we see the same
shop in it's
days as Hudson's stores. Christopher and Brigitte
Hudson bought the
shop from the Smiths in Setember 1951 and ran the
store until 1956.
A wonderful image of Throwers Shop (picture from Linda Winterbone) |