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A stroll down New Road - Odds 245 to 295 - continued
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Map Data: Purple - Early Cottage Names / Blue - Current Cottage Names / Green - Buildings on 1880 OS Map / Pink - Buildings since 1914 OS Map
For some years during this later period it was not used as a shop but as a display window for samples of upholstery from the firm that worked from sheds at the rear.
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Bella Beauty in 2006
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In 2006, these were occupied by “Renko Workshops” and a company which advertises on the internet from these premises under the name of “MadeJust4U” furniture designers.
Until late 2010 the shop was occupied by “Bell’a – Beauty Parlour” with a sign over the right hand side saying “Guinot” which, I am told, is a style of beauty treatment.
The shop has now re-opened as Carly’s Hair and Beauty and Tanning Salon. 
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Carly's Hair & Beauty - January 2020
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No. 249 to 253 is another block of cottages which was shown as being present on the 1871 O.S. map (as were those up to No. 269 – eleven in all) and they appear to my eye to be the originals.
Like so many others in this road, No. 275 was a shop for many years but has now reverted to private use. In the 1910/11 Kelly’s it was listed as “William Bullett, General Shopkeeper” and in 1920 it was “John Gardener, Shopkeeper” with no hint of what either of them sold - presumably it was a general village stores that sold almost everything?
In 1930 and again in 1940 it listed as being run by Mrs Elizabeth Ethel Palmer, a greengrocer and in 1968 it was “Newtons, Florists (E & D Coomber, proprietors)”, continuing to operate under this name in 1974.
The adjacent advert from a 1976 St Oswald’s church magazine shows that this shop was used as a collection point for “Wilson’s Footwear Repair Service”.
Back in the 1891 census it was occupied by Margaret Rea, a widow, and her daughter Sarah, both retired grocers so it is quite possible that it had previously been a shop which had subsequently been closed due to their retirement, later to re-open. 

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Numbers 247 to 253 in 2006
 The above 2006 photo shows a block of four cottages but the 1871 only seems to indicate three at this end. 
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Perhaps the left hand one is a more modern addition?
Nos. 277 to 281 are a group of three cottages bearing another undated sign, this time painted with the title “Coxhill Cottage”, apparently named after a local farmer.
 
They are listed in the 1891 census although, interestingly, without the cottage name, which must have been added later.
Since the name is, unusually, in the singular (i.e. “cottage” rather than “cottages”) it could be that it was applied only to the centre one?

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Coxhill Cottage in 2006
Thomas Froude, a Plumber and Sanitary Engineer is shown in an advert from a 1906 issue of the All Saints’ magazine to be resident at No. 283, proudly proclaiming that he was a Bronze Medallist. This medal was awarded for the first time in 1905 by the British Association of Gas Engineers to a member who presented a paper at the AGM of a Junior Gas Association. 
F. W. Payne, Builder and House Decorator appears in a 1907 edition of the same magazine to be resident at No.285.

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A little further on is another group, this time of four cottages, Nos. 289 to 295.
 
As far as we can tell they were not present at the time of the 1891 census so they would also date from between 1891 and 1914, but it seems that quite a lot of building took place in this period.

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Newman Cottages in 2006
They have a painted, undated sign, again a little faded, proclaiming them to be “Newman Cottages”. I have not been able to find any reason for the name.
No.219, the second cottage from the left in this block was shown in the 1930 Kelly’s to be the residence of Police Constable George Berry. We shall see later on that No.252 across the road was occupied in 1891, 1913 and 1920 by various Police Constables.  Perhaps by 1930 the Police House had moved? 

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