Banstead Village

The shop with wares on the pavement is Banstead Corn Stores. I think the the last of the "old" shops from my schooldays to go from the High Street. The tree in the centre of the picture was a (European) Lime that stood outside Boots. Note how the High Street widened from where the photographer stood (for a small parade of shops not visible in the photograph).

Compare with photo picture #316 where High Street narrows again.

I believe the second shop down in the three-floor building was Hearn's the Butcher and just a few doors down there was a coffee bar that was very popular with the Young Conservatives on Saturday mornings before they went on to the Victoria! c.1956/7

On the brickwork to each side of the Corn Stores there was green metal cladding.
When walking home, down the High Street from Winkworth Hall (which was used as a classroom for Banstead Village Primary School, us naughty boys would bang on the metal cladding making a hell of a noise then run off down the High Street laughing.
Mr Gould was our teacher would have been about 1959-60

The actual location of Heaven and Sons butchers shop, is the third shop as to where the second car is parked. I know this, as I was in 67/70 a young butcher who worked there, over looked by the kind Mr Skinner who was my manager and lived in one of the apartment's above. Such happy memories.my late mother lived here all her younger maiden life, revealing many happy and sad wartime stories of her time spent in Banstead and surrounding village's. As was said happily very littlely unchanged today, apart from of course the traffic.

In the 50s my mother used to cycle, with me on a seat behind her, from Woodmansterne to the High Street to get our Spillers dog biscuits for our dog Biff. Then we would go into the Co op so I could watch the money going along in its little canister to the office upstairs and wait for the change to return in its little screw top canister.

I think Banstead Corn Stores which I mentioned above was actually Burgh Heath Corn Stores although we referred to it as Banstead Corn Stores to distinguish from the outlet at Burgh Heath which we also used.
If that photo was taken winter 1949/50 I would be in my last year at the village infants school!
The drapery and furnishing Co-op store was immediately to the right of the photographer. The canister and pulley system for cash was used there.

I remember the Corn Stores - 2 shops with an internal connection that ran behind the stairs to the flats above (which was similar with the CoOp range of shops next to David Deightons)

Two gentlemen ran it, both wore traditional brown overcoats - very Arkwright. Probably in their 50s?

I remember Winalot biscuits for dogs in a full sized hessian sack on the floor which my mum would buy a paper bag's worth. Lots of products like that - bird food, peanuts, other dried animal feeds - and also a fair selection of household and gardening implements like shown in the photo.

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