Schlosberg Drapery Shop, High St, Bream
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This
shows the Schlosberg Drapery Shop - possibly located near Bream Maypole
or possibly located at the highest point of Bream High St. around 1910.
The lady
in the smock
may
be Emma
Schlosberg
(nee
James).The
business
was run by Charlie and Emma Schlosberg. They had six
children all born in Bream and they were Bertha 1900, Charles (Beton)
1902, Henry
1905, Norman 1907, Raymond 1910, and Isaac (Ike) 1913.
Hugh
Savell added: "This building is most certainly at the high point
of the village and is the building next to the second picture of Schlosbergs
shop. The two buildings and Mike Wildin's house on the other side
are the subject of the Bream sampler (New Regard, 1999). It became
Forest View Stores in the 1960s (?) and is now Drywell Cottage,
my home since 1988. I can identify individual stones from the
photograph and I am pleased to note that I rebuilt the wall in 1997
almost exactly as it is in the old picture! The shop windows are now
gone and
the house now looks more as it was in the Bream sampler. I am sure
that the building behind the house was at one times a blacksmiths and
that the
access alley way between the houses (where the dry well is) was built
across in the mid 19th century before the sampler was created. I would
be fascinated
to hear if anyone could confirm my supositions and would be glad
to hear from anyone interested in looking over the property."
Hugh further adds "There are a couple
of other cottages in Bream with the mixed red and grey stone and I presume
they represent extensions added as families
grew with the grey sandstone coming from the quarries at the Parkend
end of the village and the red from the quarry next to Bannock Tree cottage
on the Coleford Road. Looking at our house I am sure that the grey stone
represents the older part of the house, and the red stone is more recent.
The windows were enlarged in the early 60s and the middle window moved
in 1996 which explains the
change in configuration from the 1910 photograph and the Bream sampler.
I
have the deed documents for the house going back to 1906 and it was variously
a drapers, butchers, fish and chip shop, electrical repair
shop, taxi office and, up to about 1983, , a village store. The Adams
were the incumbents from 1960 (when the house was hideously “modernised”)
to 1977 and it was known as Fitzpatrick’s Stores.
If anyone has any other information I would love to hear and the offer
to
look over the old place still stands."
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