No 30 North Street in 1885

The changing street scene in our market towns is reflected in the shop fronts which have been transformed from quaint Victorian facades to plastic and plate glass. No 30 North Street is pictured here in 1885 when the premises were owned by Arnold Pick and Co, a wholesale and retail ironmongers with an adjoining blacksmith's forge underneath the arch.
This was a most useful shop for the town supplying all hardware, general furnishings and kitchen utensils but the firm also dealt in agricultural implements and machinery. Arnold Pick was also second engineer of the town fire brigade and owner of the Marquess of Granby public house in Abbey Road although he never actually served behind the bar, preferring to install a manager to run the premises.
 He died in 1891, aged 46, when the business was bought by the Foley Brothers, later becoming a motor showroom and workshops known as the Jubilee Garage, and when the building was restored as a theme bar and restaurant in April 2006, the name was revived for the popular business we see there today.