56 High Street

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• Part of (0-1-5) granted to GW Barnard in 1847
• Edward's Boot Repairs (1920s)
• Tom Hay Saddlery (-1922 - 1963+)
• Jack Banner Boot Repairs (1940s)
• Derwent Valet Cleaners - Jim Anderson (1954 - ????)
• Derwent Valet Cleaners - Albert Olden (1959? - 1968?)
• Derwent Valet Cleaners - Rick Sedgwick (??? to 1984)
• Derwent Valet Cleaners - Doug Boote (1984 to 1999)
• 20th Century Artifacts (2003 - present)
  
  

Streetscape showing signage for Thomas Hay, Saddler in 1936 (Photo courtesy Weekly Times, Melbourne 4 April 1936)

Thomas Hay outside his saddlery at the rear of 56 High Street.

54 and 56 High Street for sale by auction in 1951 - mentions the saddlery at the rear of the block. The street frontage is shown as 59 feet and 8 inches which converts to 18.19 metres - the current 54 is 4.6 metres and 56 is 13.6 metres.

This photo was taken in 1941, and shows the house with the picket fence and Jack Banner Boot repairer located at 56 High Street, demolished in the early 1950s. Jack Banner later moved across the road and was on the staff of De Jersey's Store

One of several posters created for Jim Anderson in the 1950s - now on display at Lindisfarne Dry Cleaners, who bought the business from Doug Boote in 1999

Derwent Valet Cleaners and surrounding shops in High Street in 1960

Staff of Derwent Valet Dry Cleaners circa 1967 (Photo courtesy of Karen Morrisby)

Aerial photo taken in 1967 - trying to work out where the staff photo was taken, if it was taken on the premises at 56 High Street.

Book Week parade in front of Derwent Valet Dry Cleaners in 1977 (Photo courtesy of Janine Bester)

Derwent Valet Dry Cleaners in the 1990s

20th Century Artifacts in 2006 (Photo courtesy of New Norfolk Historical Information Centre)

20th Century Artifacts around 2009

20th Century Artifacts in 2023 (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)