After Froyle Stores closed in the 1980s it became an interior designer’s shop, then an art gallery, and has now been converted into residential accomodation. Each stage of the conversion reveals different stages in the old shop’s life.

This photograph, dated 1902, is one of the first we have of Brownjohn’s Stores, looking more like a scene from the Wild West than Hampshire!	This photograph from 1908, shows members of the Brownjohn family outside the shop after it's new frontage had been built	This was the scene in 2001, days before the Froyle Gallery closed its doors for the last time.
93 years after the proud family picture in the middle of the row above, the tiles under the shop window are still good as new.	In August 2001 the builders moved in and began demolishing the old shop front, which was an extension attached to the main building.	This will finally be totally removed, when a new home has been found for the post box (right), to provide car parking space for the new owners

By April 2002 the post box had been removed and, by the end of May, the majority of the external work had been completed. The final picture on the right shows the fully finished house in May 2007.

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