Tag Archives: 1920’s

A Day of Research at The British Library Newspaper Articles

Today we have spent the day looking through newspapers from 1921 to 1930 The building is amazing and looking through old newspapers is a very interesting way to spend your day The best part of the day is that we found the advert for the launch of my Great Grandfathers shop, the announcement of my Gran’… More

The first trip to the shop and some amazing research at the local library

It’s early Saturday morning and we are in the car on our way to see the Family shop and research the history at the local library……. After a very long day in the area we find the following: The listings of the shop in the local directories The advertising in the local Directories, dating ba… More

The New book planning starts this year

After publishing the successful Retail Handbook in 2011 I have been working with many E-commerce Retailers and growing many successful E-commerce Businesses. I spent the Christmas period with the family and found out some amazing facts about the family Retail Dynasty and an amazing photo of the shop that we s… More