Station Stores - Station Road
Currently Whitacres only shop run since 2003 by Dave Calvert as a newsagent and general stores. Opening times are advertised in "The Tidings" and they also deliver papers to your door too.
The shop was built in 1956 by Stuart Kennett to service the then extant railway station hence its station stores name. |
Whitacre Post Office
General store and Post office counter
Closed 30th June 2015
Closed 30th June 2015
Postmasters and Shopkeepers
Station Road Shop - opposite Post Office
Grocery and general store.
Closed sometime in the late 1970's when operated by the Coningsby family.
Closed sometime in the late 1970's when operated by the Coningsby family.
Coton Road Shop
Operated by Bill Thompson certainly from 1949 to sometime in the 1960's(?) when Pauline Davies took over.
If Bill did not have the item you wanted in the morning he would usually be able to get it by the afternoon.
Pauline was often helped by her Mother in law.
Always a sweet and general store.
Closed circa 1974
Shop refitted and operated as hairdressers saloon until garage area redeveloped when the saloon relocated to Whitacre Methodist Chapel.
If Bill did not have the item you wanted in the morning he would usually be able to get it by the afternoon.
Pauline was often helped by her Mother in law.
Always a sweet and general store.
Closed circa 1974
Shop refitted and operated as hairdressers saloon until garage area redeveloped when the saloon relocated to Whitacre Methodist Chapel.
Hairdressing Salon
Originally in a room at the rear of the Sweet and General store at Coton Road garage - see above entry. Operated by Margaret Isles. Her first client was Jean Whitehead who had her hair done in the kitchen before they were quite open in the early 1960's Perms might take all morning since Margaret would pop out to feed the chickens whilst the hair was being done! Business sold to Mireade by 1968.
When the shop closed the hairdressers moved to the converted front and was owned and run by Mireade Kelsey. She employed Tina Fellows and Jayne the latter started (1968) immediately after her training at 18. The original shop entrance door was bricked up and access from the side continued. Later bought circa 1983 by Josie and Jane and operated as J's salon until the garage complex was shut and redeveloped - demolished circa 1990.
At this point the business moved to a room within the Methodist chapel where the hairdressing business continues now under yet another new owner now Jane has retired (2017). |
Pictures taken circa 1990 when the complex was being redeveloped.
Ridley Lane Shop
Small shop - source Mr Jim Wheeler December 2018 - sold general stores and ice cream
Electrical Repair and Hardware supplies - Cottage Lane
Operation run from a garage which used to repair TV's and Radios as well as supply bicycle tubes and similar. You did not always get your own TV back as the repairs would take so long. - source Mr Jim Wheeler December 2018