R Chirgwin and son grocer

The building had been altered, extended, the door in a new place, but still the wonderful curved glass and the art nouveau tracery to the glazed frieze remained; I used to stand and wonder at the contents of the shop front. Tragic when it was demolished and replaced with the concrete monstrosity. But it has all gone as you say, and is replaced again; such is the transience of architecture, but we have still lost something beautiful.

yes, tragic that buildings like this have been lost, some underhand dealings must have been happening to allow this

A Building Line Plan of 1948 dictates that any new work will have to be set back to that building line; it is therefore all the more important to look after our finer buildings; this building originally built 1885, not very old for a granite structure. We have a number of very important buildings in this town that are being neglected.

Another local firm that produced their own pop in named bottles, unfortunately none in my collection. Also had a shop on the Scilly Isles

It really does look beautiful, unfortunate I didn't get to see it.