‘Singing while he arranged the fruit’: 51 Regent’s Park Road

2013 Café

History:

  • CONFECTIONER Thomas Masters 1855-60
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Peters, 1983

This was the first confectioner in Primrose Hill. Many others have been and gone in all the local streets.

  •  CONFECTIONER  John Miller 1860-65
  •   Mrs Mary Miller 1865-75
  •   John Marshall 1880-85
  • DRESSMAKER Mrs Ada Fooks 1890
  • CONFECTIONER Arthur Morison 1895-1900
  • PLUMBER James Farmer  1900-05
  • LAUNDRY Farley-Cartman Col. Ltd  1910-15
  • BOOTMAKER Alfred Barnard 1920-25
  • MOTOR CAR ACCESSORIES Regent’s Park Garages 1926-35

 

Kirby's Greengrocer in Regent's Park Road, 1986

Kirby’s Greengrocer, 1986

Cars were first owned by the middle classes in the 1920s. but Primrose Hill was then a run-down area, and it seems unlikely that many local residents would have had one.No. 113 opened as a petrol station in about 1930.

  •  UPHOLSTERERS  Bucknell’s Ltd  1940
  • BUILDERS  Bucknell’s Ltd  1960
  • ESTATE & HOUSE AGENTS Bucknell’s Ltd. 1945
  • CONTRACTING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Bucknells  1970
  • FASHION CLOTHING Factory Shop  1980
  • FRUITERER Peters 1983-85

Locals remember him as ‘a real Cockney who went very early to market, and used to sing while he arranged his fruit’.

  • GREENGROCER Kirby’s  1990-97
  • CAFÉ  Le Tea Cosy  2000-present