High Street PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Fig.2 High Street Codnor in the 1920s. A line of new shops now bridge the gap between Bostocks butchers at the bottom of Mill Lane and Prospect house on the left of the picture. The shops were built by George Severn starting with his furniture shop in 1911 and finally completing the row in 1923. In Joseph Millot Severn's book “My Village” he recalls a Mr & Mrs Slack living in Prospect house when he was young, at the time of this photograph a George Cater lived there.
The next shop was Codnor post office, run by William Kemp. The next shop was Hiram Eyre’s Ironmongers shop. When I was a boy in the1960s the shop was ran by his daughter Olive Eyre, but Hiram was still alive and he would take me walks down Goose lane with his granddaughter.
The next shop with the sunblind was Miss Hopkinsons India & China Tea shop. Next was Fanny Taggs Millinery shop, then the Barbers owned by Raymond Green. This was still a barbers when I was a boy living at 8 Alfreton Road and I remember frequently being sent over by my mother for a short back and sides. The next shop was George Severns Furniture shop, which stayed in business until the 1970s. Finally Bostocks Butchers now forming the end of the row.
A few things to note in this photograph: The electric tram and tram posts carrying the cables. Tramway services ran between Ripley and Nottingham from 1913 to 1933 when they were replaced by trolley buses. The coronation tree surrounded by an Iron railing fence and circular seat and beyond that were the bus shelter now stands was a garden with Hawthorn hedges and pond for watering horses and cattle.
Fig.3 High Street Codnor in the 1980s.
Information for this page was obtained from the following publications.
My Village, by Joseph Millet Severn 1935
The Heritage of Codnor & Loscoe, by Fred S Thorpe 1990
Ripley & Codnor, compiled by David Buxton 1994
Heanor Then & Now, by The Heanor and District Local History Society 1987
Life In Old Heanor, by The Heanor and District Local History Society 1983
