LAST week we looked at the Organ Inn and now we cross over the road to Portway corner, which is today known as Carters Corner, an area that proudly bears a blue plaque for its renovation.
On the corner at number 16 in 1898 was Steadman and Son hairdressers and tobacconist, which once had advertising signs on the wall. Stead's moved up to premises in the Market Place but the High Street business remained a hairdressers right through the 20th century, closing about 1990.
It was run by HW Crocker in the 1920s, who advertised Marcel Waving as a speciality, along with hair work of every description made to order; electric treatments; tinting and private cubicles upstairs for ladies and gentleman.
Walter Hiscox ran the business in the 1930s, illustrated by our archive picture of Hiscox's on Portway Corner with its two windows. one depicting the tobacconist side of the business the other illustrating hairdressing
Although the focus of the town centre has moved towards Market Street in recent years, with many shops in George Street and the bottom end of Market Street empty, over the last decades it has had many uses, mainly as Joy's shop, run by Terry Bishop's sister.
It has been a fancy dress hire shop and was most recently a shop selling cleverly designed radiator covers, reflecting the boom in home improvements of the last 20 years.
The shop is currently empty, and has been the subject of a recent planning application to turn it into a tattoo parlour.
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Our today picture shows the shop as renovated but without its tobacco advertising signs and a discreet finger signpost on the wall pointing the way to Salisbury.
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