| Like most villages in the last century, Froyle
was self-sufficient, with many shops and shopkeepers. These were not
all shops as we would recognise them today, often being only a corner
of a room in a house. Brownjohn’s Stores, in the picture above, was
a ‘proper’ grocers’s shop and bakery, and survived under various owners
as the village shop until the 1980s. After that it became an Interior
Designer’s premises, then an Art Gallery, and, in 2001, was as a private dwelling. Follow the ‘More’ link to find out about the
history of this shop.
We can date the picture to about 1907 from the ages of the children standing by the cart. The gates in the picture are long gone, but a visitor today would easily recognise this scene, although the oasthouse in the background was demolished in 1920. |