2013 (since 1986) Keys and Locksmiths

History:

• MILLINER Misses Anne & Emily Roome 1868
  

  Doidge Amusements, 1972

• Charles Humphreyson 1871
• GROCER George Browell 1875
• CHANDLER Alexander Seath 1881-89
• GREENGROCER William Buckland 1901
• ” John Morgan 1905
• ” William Birbeck 1910-35

The present owner guessed this had been a greengrocer because he found some old spiked price labels under the floorboards in the 1980s.

• CIRCULATING LIBRARY Herbert Crane 1940
• UPHOLSTERER Sidney Carnt 1950
• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Doidge (Amusements) Ltd  1970-72

Doidge owned and rented out fruit machines, pin tables and juke boxes. Mr Doidge was born in Edis Street (then called Eton Street) and among his childhood memories (1930s) was a goat tethered on a strip of grass in Fitzroy Road, alongside 129 Gloucester Avenue.

• KEY CUTTING F.J.C. Doidge 1980
• LOCKSMITHS Keys Galore 1986 – present

The present occupant is the son of the man who ran Doidge Amusements.He remembers when he still had shops as neighbours:

No.92 was a barber until the 1980s
94 ?
98 was a grocer until the 1980s
100 was a newsagent until the late 1970s/early 80s.