Allen & Bros Grocers
My grandfather William Allen and grandmother Florence Allen ran Allen & Bros Grocers during the Second World War, with William's brother Carradine Allen. They lived in Oldbury House with their daughter (my mother) and my great aunt, Lydia Dennis. After my grandfather died in 1958 the family moved to Priors Park where they stayed until the death of Lydia in 1990. While looking up the family tree I have found that my grandfather was born at The Crescent in Tewkesbury and his family all came from Tewkesbury and around. Myself and my siblings spent a lot of our childhoods in Tewkesbury at Priors Park and have fond memories of walking into town through Conigree Lane, where the parrot in the primary school always spoke as we went past, to the bakers at the bottom of the high street, and then to Leopolds cake shop, stopping off at the mill on the way home and maybe the small shop in Abbots Road if anything was forgotten in town.
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RE: RE: Allen & Bros Grocers
Delighted to read Ruth's account of her grandparents shop.In the late 1950s. As a small boy of 11 or 12 I would often spend time in her grandfather's shop on a Saturday morning before trotting off to the Sabrina cinema to part with my 7d and watch John Wayne or similar despatch justice to all the baddies.....easily identified by their wearing of black hats. My mother Jean Ellaway, worked there for a time and another serving lady called Miss Pumphrey took a bit of a shine to me and would find small jobs for me to do like stocking shelves. In hindsight it was probably to keep me out of the feet of the staff and customers but she was kindness personified and I remember her and 'Allan's' with affection.
Comment from Nick Ellaway on Friday, 12th August 2011.