| The Brownjohn family pose for the photographer
in this enlarged section of the previous photograph. Walter Brownjohn
stands in the shop doorway, while his brother Alfred is with his three
children. The man standing with the horse, ‘Rufus’ and dog ‘Bob’ is
‘Doughy’ Lawrence who delivered to Kingsley, a village to the South
of Froyle. He used to go to sleep with newspapers over his legs and
his horse would bring him home. Shortly after this picture was taken the shopfront was totally rebuilt. The event in 1908 was celebrated by a family photograph outside the ‘new’ shop - follow the 1908 link. At the end of 2003 we were loaned some of the deeds of the shop, going back to 1754 and including a plan of the area in 1837, Follow Beginnings to those pages. |