01 High Street

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2-8 Circle Street - ◦ - 3 High Street

  • Gilligan's Electrical (-1960+)
  • WF Brooks 4 Square Supermarket (1965 to 1975)
  • Number One High Street Foodland (1975+)
  • Ken McCoy's Painting & Decorating (BP) (late 70s early 80s?) also ran driving school
  • Pensioners Union (1985 to 2009)
  • Salvos (2009)
  • Valley Accounting
  • The Mills (2020)

In the 1980s, Ken McCoy ran a driving school from the upstairs premises, also a paint shop downstairs. Later, there was an accountant upstairs.

Residence on the site in the 1940s (right)
Original WF Brooks 4 Square Supermarket signage revealed during renovations in 2020
Wally Brooks and his wife retired from running the supermarket in April 1975. (Derwent Valley Gazette 23 April 1975)
New owners Chris Trumble and John Moore took over shortly after. (Derwent Valley Gazette)
Ad for Number One High Street Foodland (Derwent Valley Gazette)
Derwent Valley Pensioners Union in 2008
Harcourts/The Mills in 2023 (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)