Knights Of Milford

A Memory of Milford on Sea.

The shop with the blind outside was built by my grandparents in 1932, they already had two shops in Milford High Street, opposite the Post Office, a confectioners and a grocery shop. Grandpa and Grandma decided to expand the grocery business to the new premises and the old shop became an off-licence. Cecil and May Knight lived in the flat above the new shop with my dad Frederick, and his first wife Marjorie (nee Casperd) who died in 1942. Grandpa died in 1946 and when Dad remarried in 1947 he and Mum, Joan (nee Dyer) lived above the two High Street shops. I was born in 1950 and lived in Milford until 1968, but returned to work part time in both the grocery and confectionery shops, as family life allowed. The family business (C.L.Knight & Son), which Grandpa had started in the early 1900's was finally closed in 1986 when Mum retired, although the shop in the picture had ceased to be a grocery shop in the early 1970's after Dad died.