Here are some brief memories about Dersingham businesses that were recalled on a reflective post on the Dersingham Village Facebook Group.
The initial message by Dave Tomlinson triggered a number of others to add their thoughts:
Just thinking about what shops that there are no longer in our Village. We lost all petrol stations - Cox's BP, Greysons Cleveland, Shanks Shell, and the One on the corner of Post Office Rd. Rankins Groceries, Reg Houchens Coaches, 2 Gent barbers, Playfords Bakery, Hanfords Groceries and Ladies Hairdresser, Lynfords Corner, Parkers Corner Grocers, The Dun Cow, The Albert Victor, The White Horse, Stevens 'Chippy', Reynolds Nursery, Dungers Coal Merchant, Barclays Bank opposite the Police Station, Fred Eastons banger car sales (I got my first car from him) a vacant plot now, Ken Milton, butchers and Towers butcher along with Richard 'Dodgy' Dix, car sales, followed by Malcolm Gore.
The village joined in with:
Hills cycles on Post Office Road. It was previously Bennet's sweet that shop sold everything from knitting wool and zips to 1/2d sweets and all your grocery, those where the days.
The little sweet shop on Lynn Road opposite Manor Road. That was Pullen's, they did grocery bits as well, Doris Drew had it. Hubby's mum had that as a shop for a few years. Mr and Mrs Pullen owned it at the time I am thinking of. Doris must have come in later. I remember Pullens as they had wo vicious 'Staffy' Terriers at the time and if you went in there on Sundays they had all the shelves covered up with news papers to comply with the 'Sunday Law' .
Rossiters car sales on the junction of Manor Road and Heath Road [April 2024]
Haydens
At the Old Hall.Peter Oliver Leach had auctions at the old hall, When the Old Hall was refurbished and called the Gamekeepers Lodge Seth Armstrong came down from Emmerdale and did the official opening and also played the piano most of the evening
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The launderette at the bottom of Kings Croft - previously a wine merchants wine merchants(Peatling and Cawdron) possibly run by a family named Bavistock.Norfolk Stores before I think about1960.
Grocer's on Chaplel Road.
Priors and Scoles butchers.
Video shop that was owned by the Elworthy family.
Playfords Manor Road bakery
Peter Oliver Leach (The Man in the Red Waistcoat) . He sold cars at the Garage on the bottom of Post Office Road as well.
The Barn Hair Dressers near the Doctors surgery and Priors the butchers.
Dr Jolley had a Surgery on Bank Road, he used to have his main one in Snettisham back then. After that Doctors Shaw and Fielding came.
Dr Ansell had his surgery in his house on Sandringham Hill and another in Sandringham. He drove a vintage Bentley. Dr Ansell lived in Wolferton at one time, his spare wheel once fell out of the slot in the back of his car, I found it on the side of the road and took it back to him! He had not noticed that it was missing.
Nick Napoletano, barber and bike spares. On the opposite side TV shop and the shop I remember at top of Manor Road was Hallidays.
Mrs Neaves shop was owned by my 2x great grandmother Agnes Neave nee Flegg (second from left)
Turned into a house now!
