Corner Shop: Barrett Stores, No. 75 Bridge Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

            Place: Barrett Stores, Corner Shop at No. 75 Bridge Street (Property Purchased in the 1950s)
Started Family Business: 1948
Closure of Family Business: 2001
Founder: Dennis Charles Barrett - 1948 - 1980/William Dennis Barrett (son) and Amelia Joan Barrett (William's Mother) - 1980 - 2001.
Location: Swindon
County: Wiltshire
Country: England (United Kingdom)
Date: Towards the end of the 1990s (approximately)
Scanned Image: Old Family Photograph
Subject: Ancestry/Family History/Genealogy
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Started in 1948 by Dennis Charles Barrett (Grandfather) in a lock-up shop in Manchester Road in Swindon. The shop could only sell "fruit & veg" due to rationing after the Second World War. My Grandfather at the time, rented the premises at Manchester Road.

The shop then moved from Manchester Road to the corner of Bridge Street/Harding Street (see in photograph). This shop was purchased in the early 1950s. This building was originally a large cottage that had the name "Tiara". The shop in Bridge Street ran as a General Groceries & Continental Food Shop.

In the early 1960s, my Grandfather bought another shop in Cambria Bridge Road, which operated like the shop in Bridge Street.

In the 1970s, the family operated a Shop Mobile Van serving customers in the rural parts of Swindon.  

In January 1980 my Grandfather suddenly passed away, leaving the business to his son William Dennis Barrett (My Father) and William's mother Amelia Joan Barrett (My Grandmother), by which time the shop in Cambria Bridge Road had been sold and so had the mobile van as well, but the shop in Bridge Street still remained.

Barrett Stores finally closed it doors in 2001, after 52 years in business.

Photograph: William Dennis Barrett and Ameila Joan Barrett at Barrett Stores: No. 75 Bridge Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Left: William Dennis Barrett (Father)
Right: Amelia Joan Barrett (Grandmother) - née Berrisford

Taken in: UK / England / Wroughton / Swindon (show map)

Taken on: October 2, 2022

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